Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Pablo Dotro
it scales well, but it saved me a lot of time and arguments. When writing these kind of documents, I really miss being able to have the same facilities that are available while coding (version control with automated patch/merge funcitonality and conflict resolution) I hope this helps. Pablo Dotro

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

2013-07-08 Thread Pablo Dotro
Hello Virgil! On 08/07/13 17:58, Virgil Arrington wrote: I'll probably be (justifiably) ostracized for this on a LO user list, but to me trying to write a book with LO Writer is like trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Yes, it can be done, but the labor involved may not be worth

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

2013-07-08 Thread Pablo Dotro
Hi! On 08/07/13 18:51, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 08/07/2013 at 22:58, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: but to me trying to write a book with LO Writer is like trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Yes, it can be done, but the labor involved may not be worth it. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

2013-07-08 Thread Pablo Dotro
On 08/07/13 10:44, Nagy Ákos wrote: Hi, I know this book: http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/whitepapers/Creating_large_documents_with_OOo.odt It's an old book, and is writed for OpenOffice, but the most important part is the same, and you can reuse in LibreOffice. I know an another book

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

2013-07-08 Thread Pablo Dotro
On 08/07/13 14:30, Marc Grober wrote: I have seen quote a bit of argument against using a master document for a book as I was exploring this subject just recently as well. The help docs of course are a good place to start. https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Master_Documents_and_Subdocuments

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

2013-07-08 Thread Pablo Dotro
Hi! On 08/07/13 21:29, Virgil Arrington wrote: Anytime I use a program like yWriter, I end up spending a lot of time later applying formatting that I could have applied on the fly with a decent word processor. That may not be a concern for a person whose work will be published, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Use of file name in print header for Calc

2012-05-12 Thread Pablo Dotro
On 05/12/2012 05:34 PM, Paul Schwartz wrote: In Open Office, the filename was an option for insertion into the header/footer of the print job. This has been replaced, in LO, by an option that seems to be a title. In old files that I open the filename still appears in the header. Is there a way