On 2025-12-09 09:14, Jon Hughes wrote:
I’ve been working on an anthology of short fiction, and using
LibreOffice Writer for the project has been an exhausting ordeal. The
constant formatting issues, crashes, and broken features have eroded
any hope of completing this work with your software. I ultimately
abandoned the project, deleted the manuscript, and removed LibreOffice
from my machine.
I understand that this is free software, but distributing something so
unreliable for serious writing projects is irresponsible to the users
who trust it. I’ve lost significant time and effort because of this.
I’m not writing this to be pleasant — I’m writing because I want
LibreOffice to do better. Please take this frustration seriously. Tools
meant for creative work should help the process, not derail it.
-jrh
Sorry to hear you've found LibreOffice difficult for your needs.
But, have you reviewed the comprehensive documentation?
Writer User Guide and Getting Started [1]
Berlasso's "To Tame a Writer" [2]
Byfield/Weber's "Designing with LibreOffice" [3]
Taking time to first prepare well thought out and styled templates and
master document assemblages greatly simplify preparing consistent text
documents of any complexity. Very worth the time to learn to fully use
the ODF authoring tools LibreOffice provides.
Please consider another go with a bit better preparation.
=-refs-=
[1] https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/
[2]
https://frommindtotype.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ttw24-en.pdf
[3] https://designingwithlibreoffice.com/?page_id=27
--
Stuart
--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected]
Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
