Am 24.07.2015 um 15:31 schrieb Tom Williams: > Question: in what ways does LO Writer "fail" at editing or creating > "complex documents"? >
Take some letter that had been edited by a dozend of editors because nobody ever learned about templates. One opens the letter document, clears the text body pastes some other document's text body, selects here, adds bold, selects there removes underlining, adds several new lines and so on and on. After a dozend editing cycles the document has one or two pages with hundreds of different text snippets, some of them just one character wide with another font pasted from somewhere, other snippets are blank paragraphs with all kinds of attributes. In most MS Word documents I have seen I never know how the text will look like when I put the cursor at some position and start typing. A professional letter is formatted by a page setup (page style in ODF) with 5 or 6 paragraph styles and some fields for sender info and date. All this is stored in a template. When you create a new document from the well prepared template, you write the address or fill up address fields from a data source. Then you type the message body, save and print. Any pasted content is pasted as plain, unformatted text into the preformatted sections. May be you add some underlining or emphasis by means of character styles or hard formatting but the next document starts again with a page setup, 5 or 6 paragraph styles and fields for sender info and date. ----------------- On the OpenOffice forum we have many uploaded spreadsheet documents. I have a Python tool to analyse the collection of differently formatted cell ranges. Most colorful Excel sheets are stuffed with one or two hundreds of different formatting combinations where a dozend of cell styles would suffice to get a much cleaner formatting which could be modified with a few clicks. Just open the content.xml of such documents that used to be a typical Word/Excel document in a former life. If content.xml refers to hundreds of different style definitions, you see what I mean. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted