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------- Additional comments from pid...@openoffice.org Thu May 20 13:24:58 +0000 2010 ------- Hello everyone. (at first, sorry for my very bad English) Every week I need to write at least one "ata" - as renatoyamane said, this is the portuguese word from the latin "acta", that is the name of a document where people records the events of an official governmental meeting. Some of the developers and some of the people that follow this thread can think: "Why someone would need a paragraph with more than 65535 characters?"... My answer is: this is a necessity!!! And, unlike most of you can imagine, there are many people that have this needs!!! "Actas" (I didn't find the English word either for it, renatoyamane) need to be written in ONE PARAGRAPH, and as someone already said before, this is a RULE. And there are many REASONS to this rule, and one of them is that, as an official and very important document (usually written by governmental or law docs), it is necessary to avoid the possibility of later changes on the formatted text (possibly made by obscure and/or illegal/fraudulent intentions). I am not saying that we need 64 bit long characters... But 32 bit would be perfect!!! Why not using 32 bits????? And for those that think that this reason doesn't worth the developer's effort, my answer is: other word processors can handle big paragraphs since dinosaur's era, but unfortunately I need to go to M$ Word to handle my big "actas", and I am VERY SAD for having to do this!!! I AM STILL A FAN of OpenOffice, but you developers are forcing to me to go elsewhere, and this makes me MAD!! Come on, guys!!! A 7-years-old issue that is centered in a simple variable (a question of 16 bits to 32 bits migration on a specific feature) doesn't deserves your attention?? This is absurd, unacceptable!! (I know that there is an issue of "internal limitation", but why this limitations applies only to OO, and no other word-processor since "stone-era"? Again, sorry for my bad English. Hope everybody understand my disappointment. And hope we can write "actas" in Open Office the sooner the better. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
