On 2011-08-08 06:10:59, Tim Fairchild wrote: > On 8/08/2011 8:00 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote: > > Please apologize if my translation lacks the "elegance" of your own > > wording, my knowledge of your "language" is somewhat limited. > > > > lol Mathias. Very elegant :) > > And I have literally written millions of words with OOo. I would be > lost > without it and the OOo team. > > tim.
[SNIP] I would have to second Tim's statement: "I would be lost without it and the OOo team." Although I have only written 2 novels with it (one in negotiation, one sold months ago, still waiting to be published [so I'm told] "as soon as the economy improves..." Oh for more "spare time"), together with others at my office, we we have written around 2,000 technical documents ranging from a few pages to over 2500. And by the way, some of them are sufficiently complex that they invariably crash MS word. We adopted the OASIS formats years ago (originally under StarOffice, later OOo) when it was clear that they would be around for a long time and were NOT a closed, intentionally obfuscated, proprietary set of formats lacking any published specifications, a "standard" which seems to change without warning at the whim of a single, intractable corporation whose sole motive seems to be profit at the expense of the integrity, preservation, and long-term use or reuse of information. I'm not knocking profit as a motive -- quite the opposite. However, try taking an MS Word 2.0 document and putting it on your windows 7 machine with the "latest and greatest" release of office on it. You can't. Case closed. (And finally, since when did proper "netiquette" include gratuitous profanity?) - bill -- william w. austin [email protected] "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..." -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
