Copy forwarded to Steven Liauw - Non-Subscribed Poster -------- Original Message -------- From: jonathon <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:07:54 +0000
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 09:30, Steven Liauw wrote: > >> 1. It will be better in my opinion if OpenOffice use a tab system when >> opening more than one document. So, there will be only one Window, but >> several "tabs" open. > > For OOo 2.x, there is a macro that provides tab features. For word, > it almost works. It doesn't work for Calc. > >> that is very powerful is the Reveal Code > > For OOo 1.x and 2.x there is a macro for word, and a different > macro for calc, that provides similar information to that provided by > WP's reveal codes. > >> It's basically a way to let users see the "code" underlying the document. > > That feature had to be included in WP, because of bugs related to how > WP implemented styles. Not only is OOo not a stream editor, but it > also uses a different methodology for implementing styles. > >> This way, a user can quickly find out why the document is not displaying as >> he wants. > > a) The only reason a document does not display what the person > expected, is becuae the person was not using styles properly. > > b) If you configure the formatting toolbar correctly, and know what > the attributes of the styles that you use are, you can obtain the same > data as that provided by WPs reveal codes. > >> It also allows the user to see where certain codes are, such as the page >> break, the margin, etc. > > The best improvement to OOo would be to remove the ability to > display the formatting toolbar. Removing all toolbars, requiring > keyboard commands would improve both the functionality, and ease of > using OOo by several orders of magnitude. (It would also mean that it > was a11y --- which is something that both MSO and OOo currently > fail.) > > jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
