Re: Complaint: "buggy implementations"

2020-10-24 Thread Robert Funnell
On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, Dan Lewis wrote: On 10/24/20 16:22, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, William Lee Valentine wrote: In response to Mr. Olsson's recent complaint about combining graphics with text in Writer: my documentation for Writer (distinct from that provided with

Re: Complaint: "buggy implementations"

2020-10-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/24/20 16:22, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, William Lee Valentine wrote: In response to Mr. Olsson's recent complaint about combining graphics with text in Writer: my documentation for Writer (distinct from that provided with OpenOffice) indicates that, when one wants a

Re: Complaint: "buggy implementations"

2020-10-24 Thread Robert Funnell
On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, William Lee Valentine wrote: In response to Mr. Olsson's recent complaint about combining graphics with text in Writer: my documentation for Writer (distinct from that provided with OpenOffice) indicates that, when one wants a picture to appear in one of Writer's documents,

Complaint: "buggy implementations"

2020-10-24 Thread William Lee Valentine
In response to Mr. Olsson's recent complaint about combining graphics with text in Writer: my documentation for Writer (distinct from that provided with OpenOffice) indicates that, when one wants a picture to appear in one of Writer's documents, one should click on "Insert > Picture > From file",

Re: After all these years ... still buggy implementations ... do users still tolerate it?

2020-10-24 Thread Lucetta
People who can’t use OO, like myself move on. The tech help here at all volunteers & I greatly admire their enthusiasm, talents & energy! Still get get digests as I can’t be bothered working out how to remove my email from the list. Also any info can turnout to be useful & reused in a

Re: After all these years ... still buggy implementations ... do users still tolerate it?

2020-10-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den lör 24 okt. 2020 kl 12:29 skrev Olle Olsson : > I find it amazing that after so many years, and so much effort spent on > implementations, the oo tools are still in what I would call "pre-release > testing stage". > I don't know, I didn't use Apache OpenOffice for a while, since it crashed

Re: After all these years ... still buggy implementations ... do users still tolerate it?

2020-10-24 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 24/10/2020 12:29, Olle Olsson wrote: I find it amazing that after so many years, and so much effort spent on implementations, the oo tools are still in what I would call "pre-release testing stage". The main concern I have is that images cannot be handled reliably in oo Writer. Modern

Re: After all these years ... still buggy implementations ... do users still tolerate it?

2020-10-24 Thread Wade Smart
Change to LibreOffice -- Registered Linux User: #480675 Registered Linux Machine: #408606 Linux since June 2005 On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 5:29 AM Olle Olsson wrote: > > I find it amazing that after so many years, and so much effort spent on > implementations, the oo tools are still in what I

After all these years ... still buggy implementations ... do users still tolerate it?

2020-10-24 Thread Olle Olsson
I find it amazing that after so many years, and so much effort spent on implementations, the oo tools are still in what I would call "pre-release testing stage". The main concern I have is that images cannot be handled reliably in oo Writer. Modern documents are image heavy. Rarely we see