On 10/6/2021 11:14 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
After importing my 300 page book from MS Word to LibreOffice, I
looked extensively in the menu system, in the help docs, and on the
Internet to resolve my magically changing styles problem, all to no
avail.
LibreOffice is just fine if you don't use styles, but who would not use
styles when working with a large document?
I can't deny your experience, I think you may be unfairly blaming
LibreOffice's and its styles.
I don't think the problem was with LibreOffice or with the size of your
book. I think your problem lay in trying to import a styled 300 page
book from Word to LibreOffice. Something always gets lost in translating
documents between two programs. I have this happen to me even with
unformatted text in different plain text editors if they are using
different encoding.
Before my retirement, I was a practicing lawyer, and I often had to
share documents with people who created or edited them on different
systems, whether Word, WordPerfect or something else. If I was
responsible to produce the final output, I learned to strip all
formatting from the document and apply my own styles from scratch. I
never had a problem with that method. Yes, it was time consuming, but it
always worked, no matter how large the document. In reality, a MS Word
paragraph style works differently from a LO Writer style. I learned
that, to be truly compatible, I had to not only use the same program as
my colleague, but also the same version. This is even true with
different versions of LyX. Every new release seems to change the source
file format just enough that earlier versions of LyX have trouble
reading documents created with later versions.
LibreOffice's styles work just fine, even with large documents. I have a
108 slide Impress presentation that works perfectly. But, I created and
edited that file on LibreOffice; I wouldn't dream of trying to import an
MS PowerPoint file into Impress without having problems, just as I would
never dream of importing an Impress file into PowerPoint without problems.
Virgil
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