https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
--- Comment #285 from ther <[email protected]> --- (In reply to tsudhonimh from comment #278) > I just finished editing and layout for a friend's PhD dissertation. It has > 150 or so pages of text, tables with titles, images with captions, > appendices with more images and tables, several pages of Matlab code with > comments, and all the academic rigamarole in the front matter, footnotes and > pagination. There is no way in Hades that Open/LibreOffice could have been > used for that document without missing the deadline. > Latex??? :) > > The suggestion, which has been repeated several times, that an author use a > stand-alone outliner and then import the outline into OO and then do the > writing ignores the way that most professional writers work. As the work > develops, as reviewers give us input, we add and move text, adding and > removing headings, moving content around until the information flow is > smooth and easy to follow through the document. > Writers should learn new tools, new methods. When you bought that ipod, did you insist on trying to insert a cassette tape? > > The suggestion has been made that we pay to have someone do it, and that it > would take 50K euros or so ... I'll start a kickstarter or gofundme with > payment to be delivered if and only if the enhancement is released into the > main distribution with all the requested features working as specified. The > things holding it up - some sort of refactoring - have apparently been taken > care of, so it should be an easy chunk of money for someone. > > Please provide the necessary links and specification into the campaign. That is the best way to get the m$ fans to stop whining and actually do something. If a $10m fund exists and noone is interested to write the code... > > If you wonder why it's hard to get professional writers to work on Linux > documentation, wonder why the Linux documentation is legendary for its > suckiness ... why should a professional writer work for FREE for the very > people who don't take OUR tool requirements seriously. Gnuplot (using latex) is a good example of what is possible -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.
