Re: [libreoffice-users] «Escape from Wicrosoft Word»

2014-10-27 Thread M Henri Day
2014-10-27 12:19 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies : > Hi :) > Interesting comments too! > > Some go into this or that tool versus another but the main thrust of the > article seems to be about "escape from desktop-publishing" but the author > seems to be unaware of anything other than Word = or perhaps he's t

Re: [libreoffice-users] «Escape from Wicrosoft Word»

2014-10-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Interesting comments too! Some go into this or that tool versus another but the main thrust of the article seems to be about "escape from desktop-publishing" but the author seems to be unaware of anything other than Word = or perhaps he's trying to keep it simple enough for the overwhelming

Re: [libreoffice-users] «Escape from Wicrosoft Word»

2014-10-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If Weltanschauung = world view, ideology, philosophy of life then LibreOffice has taken on none of it. However there is a lot of surface stuff and default settings that try to help make LibreOffice more of a "drop in" replacement. A major difference is that LibreOffice usually makes it poss

[libreoffice-users] «Escape from Wicrosoft Word»

2014-10-27 Thread M Henri Day
​I take the liberty of forwarding the URL of an article, entitled *Escape from Microsoft Word*, by Edward Mendelson​ in the current issue of the *New York Review of Books* : http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/oct/21/escape-microsoft-word/. It would be interesting to hear to what degree devel