Hi Alex, Nathaniel! Somehow missed to respond to this mail ... thanks for the reminder, Alex ;-)
Nathaniel, welcome to the team ... if you have any questions or comments, then please go ahead :-) Cheers, Christoph Am Freitag, den 16.09.2011, 22:02 +0200 schrieb Alexander Wilms: > Hi Nate, > > Welcome to the team :) > > Alex > > Am 14.09.2011 17:39, schrieb Nathaniel Schultz: > > 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 > > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
