Re: Idea of a "strict" version of LO for publishers

2022-04-09 Thread Svante Schubert
Hi all, there are different approaches to solving this scenario. Three that come instantly to my mind: 1. The existence of an ODF application where customers could select the allowed set of ODF features (e.g. disable all automatic styles for some scenarios - like translators) or allow

Aw: Idea of a "strict" version of LO for publishers

2022-04-09 Thread Andreas Kage
From the view of a publishing scientist and lecturer LO is quite perfect to generate a variety of formats (PDF, ePub etc ) out of the odt file. The odt XML style can excellently handle the different Paragraph Styles (regular, list, legends and such) but also the implementation of different

Re: Idea of a "strict" version of LO for publishers

2022-04-08 Thread Heiko Tietze
Hi Yves, educating users to work efficiently is also a goal of the design team. However, what you have in mind makes Writer kind of a text editor. One paragraph style (PS) means no headings, no lists, no citations... besides you miss all other style families like page style, character style.

Re: Idea of a "strict" version of LO for publishers

2022-04-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Yves, a global 'mode' for LibreOffice text editing is likely pretty invasive (i.e. lots of places need touching), so that's perhaps not the LibreOffice project's first choice. If downstream filtering of the document is sufficient for your use case, then perhaps the ODFToolkit [1] library

Idea of a "strict" version of LO for publishers

2022-04-07 Thread Yves Picard
Hello, On the advice of Sophie Gautier, I would like to tell you about one of our "research and development" projects, for which I have a budget of about two thousand euros. As a university publisher, we maintain electronic publishing channels from word processing to several publishing formats