On 31/03/15 11:38, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > Other than that - if it really comes to not using any word-processing > features at all, just type in your notepad equivalent and copy'n'paste > to LO after you're done typing. > > > Very good advice. We should resist feature creep. If somebody suggests > "why not add a touch typist mode to LO where you can only enter text and > nothing ever pops up and no shortcuts or accelerators are active", the > answer should be no. We already have too many modes. (Of course, my > opinion is different if somebody pays me to work on such a feature.) > Point taken. But I'm an old WordPerfect hand, as you might remember ... :-)
The advice with Word was always "type the text first, go back and format later". Very much the opposite with WordPerfect - "type the text, with formatting hints, and let WP take care of it". So you would use <bold-on>, <bold-off>, etc as you typed. So I *do* want to take advantage of word processor features, I just want a "do what I say, and don't assume ..." mode. :-) And if I type <ctrl-p> by mistake then I get a dialog - I asked for it, I get it - maybe I just have too many bad memories of Clippy ... :-) I could bash in a WordPerfect document, confident that it would print pretty much as I wanted, and then just need to clean it up. It sounds like LO has gone a fair way down that route :-) (btw, Christian, I remember tearing my hair out over autocorrect - there was (hopefully it's gone now) an autocorrupt feature that was not controlled from Format|Autocorrect. Possibly in calc, probably in Writer/Tables. It was an absolute devil to track down and disable - it made it impossible for me to format the document correctly. Can't remember the details now, it was a while ago, it'll be in the archives somewhere.) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice