https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959

--- Comment #259 from liotier <[email protected]> ---
(Apologies for the previous fragment inadvertently sent.)

> You can achieve outline function in jedit, use version control
> and make final formatting in writer by simple copy of text
> from text editor to writer.

What sets a word processing apart from a desktop publishing and text editing is
that content and form are melded. The text editor focuses on the content, the
desktop publishing package focus on format - a word processor does both... It
is a compromise.

In desktop publishing, such as using the excellent Scribus for example, the
workflow is indeed to take a piece of text produced elsewhere and use it as raw
material for a set of pages where formatting happens.

The attraction of word processing is that content creation happens in a
formatted environment. Considering a word processor as a mere last stage in the
pipeline is quite demeaning... And if that is the role assigned to Writer, the
why use it instead of Scribus ?

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