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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 22 13:48:51 -0800 2006 ------- I just posted on the main boards and a frequent poster asked me to re-post my comments here. I have been evaluating OOo Writer as a possible substitute for MSWord in my editorial workflows, and I thought it might be useful to share my evaluation summary, even though it’s largely critical and I had to go with MSWord. I’m hopeful that an eventual version of OOo will handle this adequately. Of vital importance to an editorial (or legal) workflow is the ability to redline a document. This stands in for the traditional proofreaders’ marks in many editorial workflows for many publishing houses. And is essential for collaborative work in any industry. In comparing OOo with MSWord, I took a 62 line (default settings) preface from a book I’m working on where the edits are frequent (averaging a word per sentence) and ran compare documents in MSWord to highlight changes “before” and “after.” The resulting document was a 67 line redline with fairly efficient, minimal effective highlighting. Using OOo’s “compare documents” function on the same “before” and “after” files, the resulting redline was 101 lines long, and usually nuked entire paragraphs, replacing them entirely with the "after" version where a word or two would have done the trick. Note that the length of the file increased 63% in redlining, where a minimal effective comparison needed only 8% more lines. Having run this evaluation, I see that the tools for accepting and rejecting changes are there, the changes themselves are simply poorly perceived by the application, and developers should consider this particular feature to be currently almost [i]entirely unusable[/i]. It’s great that you’ve started working on it, but really this isn’t even close to a feature that you should put on a menu right now to say “we have that, too.” You simply don't yet. Here’s hoping it’s implemented soon! Good luck! --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
