On 07/24/2015 10:45 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 06:31 24/07/2015 -0700, Tom Williams wrote: >> ... I've read many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a >> good alternative to MS Office. Some say yes, others say no. One >> common comment made by those who say no is Writer isn't good for >> "complex documents". For "basic" word processing, it's fine. >> Question: in what ways does LO Writer "fail" at editing or creating >> "complex documents"? >> >> I've submitted an LO Writer bug where Writer didn't handle Word >> documents with pages with different page orientations well. I was >> helping a friend with a term paper and most of the paper was in >> portrait orientation, but a few pages were in landscape. LO Writer >> treated the entire document as either portrait or landscape but >> couldn't handle the mixture of both. > > It's worth saying that you are mixing your ideas here. This experience > is not about LibreOffice's facility at creating or editing (text) > documents with mixed page orientations, but about how it can handle > whatever Microsoft Word puts in its proprietary file formats to encode > similar structures. That may well matter to you, but it has little to > do with how good LibreOffice may be at achieving this particular > structure. Yes, the example I cited doesn't reflect on Writer's ability to create or edit documents with mixed page orientations but the behavior I experienced could be easily viewed as Writer not being able to "handle" some kinds of MS Word documents. This isn't my personal view but a view I've experienced from those I've helped in using Writer. > > You surely cannot believe that it is at all difficult to create and > edit text documents with mixed page orientations in LibreOffice? > I haven't personally created a document like this but I wouldn't have thought it would be difficult to do. I would have simply looked up how to do it and do it. :)
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