Re: [libreoffice-users] direct formatting and styles

2014-04-01 Thread Wolfgang Keller
At the risk of beating a horse to death, today I stumbled on an online rant against MS-Word. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html While the entire blog is worth reading, But in the mind of a reader who doesn't know better from personal

Re: [libreoffice-users] direct formatting and styles

2014-03-28 Thread James Knott
Virgil Arrington wrote: At the risk of beating a horse to death, today I stumbled on an online rant against MS-Word. The first word processor I used, as opposed to line oriented text editors, was the one that came with VAX VMS on the VAX 11/780. Later, I used PC-Write, on DOS, and then

[libreoffice-users] direct formatting and styles

2014-03-27 Thread Virgil Arrington
At the risk of beating a horse to death, today I stumbled on an online rant against MS-Word. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html While the entire blog is worth reading, I was particularly struck by the following, which describes precisely my