Entertaining thread..cool. Long time since I read a WP, reveal codes, styles dust up :-)
I still use WP8 in a NT4 vbox instance for a couple of tasks..I absolutely will not give up, I too miss the dot leader feature for my table of contents. I miss this feature, and a few more. I use the table function almost exclusively, full page tables mixed cell formatting, this is a pain with styles ala LO & AOO. The compelling part to AOO & LO is the freedom and ease of archiving my business docs. peace, Greg On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Patrick Wiseman <pwise...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: > > On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: > >> > >> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > >>> > >>> On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Who said anything about running windows? > >>>> The only windows I have are made of glass lol. > >>>> Although a virtual dos machine might be interesting if I find anything > >>>> over much to do with Linux. > >>>> Thanks for the giggle, > >>>> Kare > >>>> > >>>> > >>> OK, but you can set up a UNIX virtual machine. Worst case would be > >>> needing qemu to emulate whatever processor your WP51 version was set > up for. > >>> > >>> Still don't know what you have against LibreOffice. It's almost > certainly > >>> superior to WP51 in every significant way. > >> > >> > >> At least she doesn't have to worry about "Styles." Most people do not > need > >> a QuarkXpress or MS Publisher, and that's what LO is trying to be. > >> > >> Just like those expensive commercial programs, anyone who uses LO (or > OO) > >> will either have to read and learn a lot of instructions or find a > >> > >> different solution. My solution is TextMaker from SoftMaker, which has a > >> free version for non-commercial use, and which seems to have just > >> > >> about all the features of the paid version. (I have no pecuniary > interest > >> in SoftMaker, a German firm.) > >> > >> --doug > > > > > > Funny but I never had to learn about styles. However they are handier > than > > applying individual attributes to common elements. And while LibreOffice > is > > quite powerful, it's not Scribus nor Scribus-like by any stretch. It's > just > > a modern, feature-rich word processor. That means allowing people to use > > styles when they want to or ignoring them when they don't. > > By way of example, flush-right-with-dot-leader is trivial in WP8 (the > native WP for Linux), impossible in LibreOffice without a "style" > which is absurdly difficult to create. > > Patrick > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/cajvvksnqh2ghtbxfpzh7j_okubvuk+vlgfen3tgvgozn9-s...@mail.gmail.com > > -- Peace Greg Madden
