Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-15 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 11/15/2013 01:46 PM, jonathon wrote:

 On 11/11/2013 05:13 PM, Ken Springer wrote:


 You go to the opening web page, http://www.libreoffice.org/, and LO
is promoting Version 4.  Click download, and as of right now, you end up
downloading 4.1.3.  But, you go for documentation, and it's for 4.0. 
Say what?!?!?
 That is because the LibO program release cycle is much faster than the
 LibO documentation release cycle.

 jonathon


YES
our volunteer documentation people do what they can to keep up with the
release cycle, but after you work 40-60 hours a week at your paid job,
then deal with family commitments, etc., etc., each person can only have
so much time per week to work in writing/editing the books.

4.0.0 came out in December 2012, and 4.1.0 came out the following may. 
4.0.6 just came out, which is the last of its line.  So we have two
lines out and being used right now.  4.2.0 comes out soon as well. 
Mostly the 4.0 documentation works with the 4.1 line.  There will be a
few new things in the 4.1 line not covered, but it may not be needed,
for now.

Each book is over 400 pages.  It could be over 100,000 words in each
book.  So it can take time to go through the material in a 4.0 book to
turn it into a 4.1 or 4.2 book.  All of the references need to be
checked and changed, as needed.  All of the images/graphics have to be
updated.  That takes a lot of time.  Then there are the people who
double and triple check the information.  Well, a simple paperback book
could take a year from the rough manuscript to the edited and polished
final version for publication.  We self-publish the books and have
printed copies through a print-on-demand service.  If we mess up the
documentation somewhere, it is not something we want to re-publish as a
sorry but here is the corrected version version of a book.  I have
seen a few books with version 2 with corrections from the last release
on their cover - front or back.

So I want to thank all of our volunteers who are part of the
documentation team[s].  There are too few of them and too much work for
them, but they do their best for our project.


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-11 Thread Ken Springer

On 11/9/13 12:25 PM, Paul wrote:

Interesting article, and indeed it is true that the file format is the
most important aspect of the office suite debate, but I think you are a
little naive in your assumption that LO should stop doing any other
type of marketing.


From a programmer's perspective, I think you are right.  It's a lot 
less work.  But, from the average users perspective, they don't care. 
 As long as they can exchange their files with everyone they need/want 
to share with, with no glitches or problems, it makes no difference to 
them.  Those file formats could have been created by Klingons, for all 
they care.


And I am mimicking your third point in your next paragraph.   :-)

OH!!!  You used thirdly twice.   grin  I've done similar so many 
times...



Firstly, the question of a truly open and compatible format *is* used
when discussing the problems with MSO. Secondly, we are so few, that to
stop accepting MSO formats would doom us, not convince the vastly
larger uneducated crowd that they need to switch.


Educating people is a true sore point with me, anymore.  I'm tired of 
answering basic questions about the computer before trying to explain a 
feature in Program A.  And I don't see anyone addressing this issue.  No 
one has good manuals anymore, and online help is truly a poor answer to 
a book.  Consider, if the user doesn't know the computer basics, how is 
the going to know how to access any computer's help system?


There are the occasional programs that do offer good manuals.  One that 
I'm now using, it's a writing program, comes with a 530 page manual. 
About the only option for most software is to buy a book at the store, 
and the books always seem to be missing something.


I've taken a couple of courses for programs, not because I wanted to 
learn how to use them (that I already knew), but I wanted to know the 
class content.  Disappointed, every time.  They didn't teach you what 
you could do with the program, they taught you how to use a couple of 
features.  The last one was a local library course on MS Publisher 2007. 
 Did they tell the attendees what the purpose of any DTP program is? 
Not a peep.  Did they tell them how a DTP program can be used? 
Multi-page newsletters, small books, owner's manuals, etc.  Not a peep. 
 They told everyone how to use a built-in template to make flyers.  You 
can do that in any contemporary word processor.  Nothing was said about 
what sets a DTP apart from a word processor.


But I'm sure some people went out and bought MS Publisher.  sad smile

I've downloaded a couple of the LO manuals, and personally found them 
wanting.  The formatting is paper wasteful if you print them out, and 
very little info.  And always out of date, they don't apply to the 
currently promoted release.  What do I mean by that?  You go to the 
opening web page, http://www.libreoffice.org/, and LO is promoting 
Version 4.  Click download, and as of right now, you end up downloading 
4.1.3.  But, you go for documentation, and it's for 4.0.  Say what?!?!? 
  - Slight irritation here.


And is 4.1.3 stable enough to attract, and keep, new users?  I don't 
know, but I'd bet most of the features I've found broken over the last 
couple of years are still broken.  :-(  And if you go back through this 
mailing list, you see a lot of recommendations that if the user wants 
the most stable version, download 3.x.x.



Thirdly, most people
don't really care, because it doesn't affect them. All that affects
them is that they can communicate with others that equally don't care,
and so the entrenched establishment is perpetuated. Unless the dominant
system is changed out from under them, or the dominant system stops
working for them, they won't care. Our job is to slowly erode the
dominant system until there no longer is a dominant system. Having the
dominant system become as flaky as .docx is only helps us by making the
problems actually affect the majority of users, making them care about
choices, and making them more likely to make a conscious decision to
choose the best alternative.


Eroding the dominant system is the *only* way to change the status quo. 
 The question is, how do you accomplish that?


First, you have to decide what your target audience is.  Businesses, 
individuals, or both?  The answer to that will depend on how you want to 
promote the product.  Businesses will care about interoperability, and 
the ease of converting or accessing files created with their current 
software.  LO isn't there yet, IMO.  If it was, there would be no 
questions/issues in that regard.  I received a letter of reference from 
a friend to include with a job application, written in Word for Mac, and 
the screen display was horrid, to say the least.  WYSIWYG it was not. 
If you're trying to convince someone to switch, you can't have this. 
The hoped for convert isn't going to be happy when they see their 
document from Program A all screwed up on the monitor.


As you said, 

[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-11 Thread Ken Springer

On 11/9/13 5:37 PM, M. Fioretti wrote:

On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 14:06:44 PM -0800, Pedro wrote:

Two points:

1) LibreOffice only started embedding fonts in ODF files in version 4.1
(released in July 2013); MS Office files have had this ability for YEARS. In
my opinion ODF files are NOW starting to be useful as an editable file
exchange format.


Fair point. I would really put ignoring which fonts are portable in
the over-engineered documents category of my post, but you are right
that if embedded fonts are a must, ODF isn't ready.


Embedding fonts *is* a must.  Just because two users each have 
Times-Roman, for example, it doesn't mean the fonts are identical.  So 
the formatting of the document will change between users.


Been there, done that too many times.  :-(


2) Advocating ignoring MS files only makes sense on a personal
basis. Por companies that is absurd.


that's why in the 2001 thread and in many other things I wrote since
then I said that the way to practice that advice was to put pressure
on public administrations to make them only accept/release in those
formats.


Maybe academia could start that movement but it will take time
before it reaches the companies...


maybe people should start that movement. Start to complain, even if
you know that it won't accomplish anything immediately, whenever you
are asked or given a .docx file. Otherwise we'll still be here in 2025
to hear from people that receive such files, and the only solution is
to give up using LO.

Marco




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-11 Thread Paul
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:13:49 -0700
Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com wrote:

 On 11/9/13 12:25 PM, Paul wrote:
  Interesting article, and indeed it is true that the file format is
  the most important aspect of the office suite debate, but I think
  you are a little naive in your assumption that LO should stop doing
  any other type of marketing.
 
  From a programmer's perspective, I think you are right.  It's a lot 
 less work.  But, from the average users perspective, they don't
 care. As long as they can exchange their files with everyone they
 need/want to share with, with no glitches or problems, it makes no
 difference to them.  Those file formats could have been created by
 Klingons, for all they care.
I'm not sure exactly what you are saying here. It sounds like you are
just echoing my sentiments :)

 Businesses will care about interoperability, and the ease of
 converting or accessing files created with their current software.
 LO isn't there yet, IMO.
Actually, I think LO *is* there. I think it is better at
interoperability than MSO, it's just not better at interoperability
*with MSO*.

 I disagree with your premise of the user that does not know how to 
 modify the code is irrelevant.  I would argue just the opposite.
You're misquoting me; I never said that the *users* were irrelevant, I
said that *the fact that not everybody knows how to change the source*
is irrelevant. I said that open source believes we should all have the
*choice* to change the source if we wish, irrespective of how many of
us actually are capable of changing the source. *Very* different.

 But, I can't tell them they'll have no problems.  I'm not talking the 
 inevitable changes in any file format, I'm talking about features
 that don't work correctly.  It's that perceived value that LO is
 better than staying with whatever product they are currently using.
So you're saying that LO has far more features that don't work
correctly as opposed to MSO? I honestly don't find that many. Not
enough to make me want to use MSO. Not enough to make me tell people I
know not to use LO.

And even if what you are saying is true, that doesn't speak of LO doing
anything wrong, it speaks of LO not yet having managed to reach the
same level as MSO. Not an irrelevant discussion, just a different
one to the one I was responding to.

  The potential for self-betterment is what
  open source is all about. The fact that the potential for good use
  means that there is lots of use that is poorly implemented is one of
  the prices that we gladly (though with plenty of grumbles) accept.
  Though we (should) never stop trying to educate users.
Actually, this is taken out of context. I was replying to a whinge
about how many documents are poorly written and formatted; I was saying
that that had nothing to do with any discussion about marketing free
software vs. marketing standard file formats.

Paul

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Urmas

M. Fioretti:

...shall-we-waste-twelve-more-years-promoting-free-office-suites-instead-of-open-office-formats/

There's no such thing as 'open format'. Any format can only slavishly 
describe its reference implementation. There is no reference implementation 
for ODF, except a monstrous ***Office, which was mostly written in German in 
early 90's. So if you say 'format', you say 'implementation'.


Moreover, is the document is 'formatted with spaces', it is so trivial in 
any format, so interoperability is not the problem.


P.S. Why do people like to state that ODF with magically solve the problem 
with space/CR positioning or hard linebreaks? 




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Paul
Don't worry, you can safely ignore Urmas, he's a known troll around
these parts; his bias is strongly (and probably paid for by) MS.


On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:33:04 +0700
Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:

 M. Fioretti:
 
 ...shall-we-waste-twelve-more-years-promoting-free-office-suites-instead-of-open-office-formats/
 
 There's no such thing as 'open format'. Any format can only slavishly 
 describe its reference implementation. There is no reference
 implementation for ODF, except a monstrous ***Office, which was
 mostly written in German in early 90's. So if you say 'format', you
 say 'implementation'.
 
 Moreover, is the document is 'formatted with spaces', it is so
 trivial in any format, so interoperability is not the problem.
 
 P.S. Why do people like to state that ODF with magically solve the
 problem with space/CR positioning or hard linebreaks? 
 
 
 


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Urmas

Paul:

Don't worry, you can safely ignore Urmas, he's a known troll around
these parts;

You're welcome to name a full reference implementation of ODF format not 
using the OO.o/Staroffice code. 




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[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Urmas

Paul:

...to do
what some company (like Microsoft) thinks you should be able to do, and
only if you pay them very well, open source software believes that
everybody should be able to do whatever they want. That's the very
nature of Open Source: you have the source, change it if you need to.

Oh please, change the source to make it possible to have window panes or 
normal view in the word processor. Hell, people even promise to pay well for 
them, but nothing happens as those are architectural deficiencies cemented 
in in 1992.




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Paul
As far as I can gather, neither OASIS nor the ODF Technical Committee
require a reference implementation, so none has been named. I don't
know about the ISO standard, but I would assume this applies there too.

That said, OO.o/LO would be considered by most as the reference
implementation. As a reference implementation, there generally isn't
going to be more than one (otherwise, which one would you refer to when
they differed?).

However, here is a list of software implementing the format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_software

As a side note, the competing MS format also doesn't have a reference
implementation. The only implementation that I am aware of is MSO,
which, being proprietary, cannot be a reference, as nobody (other than
MSO themselves) can see the code. And it has much bigger problems than
just a lack of a reference implementation.


Paul



On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:52:20 +0700
Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:

 Paul:
 
 Don't worry, you can safely ignore Urmas, he's a known troll around
 these parts;
 
 You're welcome to name a full reference implementation of ODF format
 not using the OO.o/Staroffice code. 
 
 
 


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Pedro
Two points: 

1) LibreOffice only started embedding fonts in ODF files in version 4.1
(released in July 2013); MS Office files have had this ability for YEARS. In
my opinion ODF files are NOW starting to be useful as an editable file
exchange format.

2) Advocating ignoring MS files only makes sense on a personal basis. Por
companies that is absurd. Maybe academia could start that movement but it
will take time before it reaches the companies...

My 2 cents.



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[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Pedro
Jay Lozier wrote
 Also, using ODF formats avoids the tweaking MS apparently does with
 their formats with each new release.

I disagree. ODF has the same problem. That is why LO has an option to save
in ODF 1.0/1.1 or 1.2 and even 1.2 extended.

ODF has EXACTLY the same problem that accuses DOCX of: even if the file
extension is the same, the contents varies according to the office version
you used to save it.

The ONLY difference is that you can always get the latest fully compatible
version of LO for free, unlike MS Office which requires that you to buy the
latest office version to have access to the full features of the updated
file format.

I'm sorry to break this idealism about ODF's perfection...



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Paul
On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 14:06:44 -0800 (PST)
Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote:

 2) Advocating ignoring MS files only makes sense on a personal basis.
 Por companies that is absurd. Maybe academia could start that
 movement but it will take time before it reaches the companies...
Actually, it makes lots of sense for companies to avoid MS formats.
It's trying to get them to do that that will be hard. And even if they
don't use any themselves, they are almost certainly going to have to
accept MS formats from others.

This is something we should be advocating (as loudly as possible,
even), but we should be aware of the realities, and advocating it as
a sane option, not trying to force it down peoples throats.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Steve Gruspier
I believe that companies should use open formats, but at this point in 
time I have never seen a company that has moved from the standard MSO 
formats. This is likely because the majority has not changed to open 
formats. Once more people adopt using open formats, then we will likely 
see a change, but for now this is not the reality.


Steven Gruspier
Electrical Engineering

On 11/9/2013 5:38 PM, Paul wrote:

On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 14:06:44 -0800 (PST)
Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote:


2) Advocating ignoring MS files only makes sense on a personal basis.
Por companies that is absurd. Maybe academia could start that
movement but it will take time before it reaches the companies...

Actually, it makes lots of sense for companies to avoid MS formats.
It's trying to get them to do that that will be hard. And even if they
don't use any themselves, they are almost certainly going to have to
accept MS formats from others.

This is something we should be advocating (as loudly as possible,
even), but we should be aware of the realities, and advocating it as
a sane option, not trying to force it down peoples throats.




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 14:06:44 PM -0800, Pedro wrote:
 Two points: 
 
 1) LibreOffice only started embedding fonts in ODF files in version 4.1
 (released in July 2013); MS Office files have had this ability for YEARS. In
 my opinion ODF files are NOW starting to be useful as an editable file
 exchange format.

Fair point. I would really put ignoring which fonts are portable in
the over-engineered documents category of my post, but you are right
that if embedded fonts are a must, ODF isn't ready.

 2) Advocating ignoring MS files only makes sense on a personal
 basis. Por companies that is absurd.

that's why in the 2001 thread and in many other things I wrote since
then I said that the way to practice that advice was to put pressure
on public administrations to make them only accept/release in those
formats.

 Maybe academia could start that movement but it will take time
 before it reaches the companies...

maybe people should start that movement. Start to complain, even if
you know that it won't accomplish anything immediately, whenever you
are asked or given a .docx file. Otherwise we'll still be here in 2025
to hear from people that receive such files, and the only solution is
to give up using LO.

Marco

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 00:38:21 AM +0200, Paul wrote:

 This is something we should be advocating (as loudly as possible,
 even), but we should be aware of the realities, and advocating it as
 a sane option, not trying to force it down peoples throats.

When a public administration demands that you write to them in the
official language of your country and its corresponding alphabet
(because, even if it's not written anywhere, they obviously couldn't
care less of stuff in other ways), are they forcing something down
your throat?

Formats are like alphabets. 

Demanding a **format** is not forcing stuff down people throats.
Demanding that others use the same software as you do is.

Marco


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 14:21:43 PM -0800, Pedro wrote:

 The ONLY difference is...

can you generate MS Office documents automatically with just a few
lines of code as in http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/tag/odf-scripting ?

 I'm sorry to break this idealism about ODF's perfection...

I explicitly say in my post: 

  We will still need, in other words, a decent, sophisticated office
  format, and that format better be ODF, because it could not be
  anything else at this point.

decent (and only feasible solution), not perfect.

Marco
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Jay Lozier

On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 14:06 -0800, Pedro wrote:  Two points:   1)
LibreOffice only started embedding fonts in ODF files in version 4.1 
(released in July 2013); MS Office files have had this ability for
YEARS. In  my opinion ODF files are NOW starting to be useful as an
editable file  exchange format.   2) Advocating ignoring MS files
only makes sense on a personal basis. Por  companies that is absurd.
Maybe academia could start that movement but it  will take time before
it reaches the companies...   My 2 cents. On point (2), the dominant
status of MSO formats will change when enough governments worldwide
move to ODF formats. Whether this is by adoption of LO/AOO or by
general mandate is not critical


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Dale Erwin
If everyone knows he's a troll why do so many bother responding in such 
great lengths.  Why bother feeding the troll.  Everyone knows this,  but 
still so many feel obligated to defend.  If you don't feed trolls, they 
go away.


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