Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-31 Thread anne-ology
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Gary Collins wrote: I think that register is an important consideration. Colloquial language tends to be in a state of flux

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-31 Thread Felmon Davis
as snapshots of actual usage. thanks. f.   From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2015, 21:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, anne-ology wrote:       grammar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
saved. From: Stephen Harding stephen.hard...@gmx.com Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com, users@global.libreoffice.org I've had no problem using Writer to create 200+ page

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-31 Thread Gary Collins
impression is important, dictionaries are very useful tools indeed. /Gary   From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2015, 21:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, anne

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-30 Thread Felmon Davis
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, anne-ology wrote: grammar skillfully employed procures meaningful communication, [see below for comments to your comments] yes, 'skillful' is not the same as 'proper'. or let's put it this way, 'proper' is ambiguous. it could mean 'according to some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-29 Thread Felmon Davis
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, anne-ology wrote: One of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's, Lewis Carroll, purpose in writing the Alice in Wonderland books was to show how the meaning can be misinterpreted when proper grammar is not used. My favorite example is Jabberwocky ;-) but the grammar of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-29 Thread anne-ology
grammar skillfully employed procures meaningful communication, [see below for comments to your comments] From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-28 Thread anne-ology
be a part of any community ??? From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu Date: Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, anne-ology wrote: Thank you; and for some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote: Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read many

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread toki
On 07/26/2015 04:48 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Well, I think this certainly serves as a great example of a very complex document. :) Which document? * 10,000 images in one document; * 50,000 pages in the outline, with projected length of 5,000,000 pages; * 10 different writing systems in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 07/24/2015 09:56 AM, toki wrote: On 07/24/2015 01:31 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Does anyone here have any experience with LO Writer and complex documents? I've had as many as 10,000 images in a single document. OOo 2.x didn't balk when I created it. Libo 5.0 beta does have any problems when

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread toki
On 07/26/2015 05:21 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Certainly, the 10 different writing systems in the same document is something *I* would consider complex, especially since that's not something I've ever seen, done, or even heard of. :) The 50,000 page outline document sounds complex as well,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread anne-ology
with digital images - the detailing is impossible to obtain as it was when dealing with silver. From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 07/24/2015 09:08 PM

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 07/24/2015 08:05 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote: Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 07/24/2015 10:45 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 06:31 24/07/2015 -0700, Tom Williams wrote: ... I've read many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS Office. Some say yes, others say no. One common comment made by those who say no is Writer isn't good for complex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 07/24/2015 08:40 AM, Pablo Dotro wrote: The main complaint I've observed regarding different capabilities in MS Office and LO comes from people that expect both products to work exactly the same. Commonality exist between them, but each one is it's own product, with different design, coding

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 07/26/2015 09:58 AM, toki wrote: On 07/26/2015 04:48 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Well, I think this certainly serves as a great example of a very complex document. :) Which document? * 10,000 images in one document; * 50,000 pages in the outline, with projected length of 5,000,000 pages;

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Davies
-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 07/24/2015 09:08 PM, Joel Madero wrote: This is simply a false statement. It's not compatible. That literally depends upon how compatibility is defined. There are use-cases where MSO 2013

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Felmon Davis
: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 07/24/2015 09:08 PM, Joel Madero wrote: This is simply a false statement. It's not compatible. That literally depends upon how compatibility is defined. There are use-cases where MSO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread jerryg860
: Stephen Harding stephen.hard...@gmx.com Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com, users@global.libreoffice.org I've had no problem using Writer to create 200+ page documents with over

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-25 Thread toki
On 07/24/2015 09:08 PM, Joel Madero wrote: This is simply a false statement. It's not compatible. That literally depends upon how compatibility is defined. There are use-cases where MSO 2013 is completely, utterly, and absolutely incompatible with MSO 2013, when installed on a different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Pablo Dotro
Hi there! I've had experience working with LibreOffice and complex documents. Back in the days of Libre/OpenOffice 3.x and Office 2003, Writer was much better than Word in handling large documents with complex formatting and a large number of included objects (say, around 100 pages, with around

RE: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Stephen Harding
781557 Telephone mobile 07969 469543 www.shirste.org.uk Skype Shirley_and_Stephen_Harding -Original Message- From: Dan Lewis [mailto:elderdanle...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 July 2015 16:06 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote: Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS Office. Some say yes, others say no.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
Maybe someone would be so kind as to explain the difference between .ODT .OTT; when is the latter used how does it differ? From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
...@comcast.net Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:31 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable alternative to Windows, in today's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote: Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Joel Madero
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:59 PM, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: As for me, I much prefer to use LO. Although it's not compatible with MSFT; this makes it difficult to send a document to someone. This is simply a false statement. It's not compatible. Please don't give new

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Philip Ward
when I have to save as MSFT to send out ;-) [I'll sometimes photograph them so they can be sent as an image ;-) ] Well, that's my experience, From: Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:31 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread toki
On 07/24/2015 01:31 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Question: in what ways does LO Writer fail at editing or creating complex documents? This where a definition for complex documents is mandatory. Does anyone here have any experience with LO Writer and complex documents? I've had as many as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Brian Barker
At 06:31 24/07/2015 -0700, Tom Williams wrote: ... I've read many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS Office. Some say yes, others say no. One common comment made by those who say no is Writer isn't good for complex documents. For basic word processing, it's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:59 PM, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: As for me, I much prefer to use LO. Although it's not compatible

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sorry guys, not part of the current thread, how do i start a new thread? or question etc? been a while, and totally forgot!! cheers Phil On 24/07/2015

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
Thank you. From: Dave Barton d...@tasit.net Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org From: Anne-ology Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:08:53 -0500 Maybe someone would be so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
Isn't that what everyone does ;-) From: Dave Barton d...@tasit.net Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org anne-ology wrote: I still don't understand that problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Dave Barton
anne-ology wrote: I still don't understand that problem of opening at the beginning only; my documents always re-open at the spot where last saved. That's because you have put a/your name in the User Data section of the Options dialog. This is one of the program's little

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Anne-ology Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:08:53 -0500 Maybe someone would be so kind as to explain the difference between .ODT .OTT; when is the latter used how does it differ? ODT (OpenDocument Text) = Writer Document OTT (OpenDocument

[libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Tom Williams
Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS Office. Some say yes, others say no. One common comment made by those who say no is