Heh, I joined the lists a month or two back, but work got hairy, and
then it ended. Suffice it to say, I was distracted.
My applicable background is primarily user-interface design and
programming. (I'm also a bit of a data guy and my degrees are in
bioengineering, so I don't actually consider myself a programmer, or
even UI designer, but I've done both.)
I've been doing things with Star Office & kin for quite some time, and
switched to Libre Office this year. (What can I say? SVG support sold
me. I hate juggling resolutions on bitmaps in documents.)
One thing I've noticed in OO.o and friends is the continual improvement.
When I wrote my thesis, my school used some really picky formatting
rules. In OO, The only way to consistently achieve that was manually
tweaking the page and paragraph formatting. I ended up using another
word processor. Now, the solution would be tricky & ugly, but it's
possible.
(The school's rules have now relaxed considerably, too: Now that Libre
Office can do the picky stuff, the new grad student don't have to.)
In many significant ways, I consider Libre Office already superior to MS
Office, but I'd like to assist making that unconditional. I've been
pondering a few issues, and actually have a few specific comments to lay
on you shortly.
-Nate Schultz
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