Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 7/5/2019 4:28 PM, James Knott wrote: > > Many years ago, I used Wordstar 2000 at work and it had similar issues > with all the formatting codes.  I'd often go through documents clearing > up the mess others had created because they didn't understand what the > formatting codes did.  Like WP,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den tors 4 juli 2019 kl 18:16 skrev John : > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 07:45 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote: > > Hi > > > > > From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support > > Wordperfects reveal code. The developer are not too keen, and sometimes > > it is stated that this feature could

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread James Knott
On 2019-07-05 04:10 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > Some 25 years ago, the government law office where I worked used > WordPerfect exclusively and we all relied on Reveal Codes, which was a > necessity because of the way we worked with WP. Although it had some > style functionality, we never used

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 7/4/2019 10:32 PM, jomali wrote: > I don't remember the details of the sxw format. Perhaps reveal codes were > appropriate then. However, ODF files have a complex SGML or HTML or XML > type format, along with a form of CSS, unlike WordPerfect and similar > programs, which used embedded code to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Uwe Brauer
>>> "j" == jomali writes: > I don't remember the details of the sxw format. Perhaps reveal codes were > appropriate then. However, ODF files have a complex SGML or HTML or XML > type format, along with a form of CSS, unlike WordPerfect and similar > programs, which used embedded code to