Wade Smart wrote: > 20090212 1246 GMT-5 > > I hear the argument al the time about Office doing more than OO and yet, > how many people EVERY use those features.
Outline mode would be nice to have (haven't tried the most recent version of OOo yet, so not sure how it is coming along). If anyone has taken any classes on how to do technical writing, they would have got the advice of preparing an outline first. MSO got this one right! > > I have installed Ubuntu on hundreds of desktops for businesses and none > have ever come back and said, OO just doesnt have what we need. Again, as I mentioned earlier, OOo is perfectly fine for "easy" documents. But for more involved documents, it still cannot beat LaTeX. But, IMHO, MS Office does the most terrible job in this scenario though. It is a strictly no no for such an application. > > Now, I have had one very nice comment that - OO has just what we need > and more than we'll use and, ITS FREE! > > If you re looking for something with special features then you are going > to pay for it. OO, Firefox, Ubuntu - work just fine for the majority of > the population - though they dont know it. There is no denying that. I fully agree. In fact, it is my view that most business customers require MSO only because all other businesses require it (somehow they think by differing they may harm their profits) and also due the strong link between MSO and Exchange. Other than these, and the outline mode, I do not think any of the business people ever do any complex document preparation (how more complex can you get than a long Physics technical manuscript or a multi-volume thesis?). Oh, and the final last good thing businesses usually use, charts and figures from Excel data -- a base which OOo seems to have covered. Anyhow, my main concern in my original post was the recent opinions and articles about code contribution czars and extremely over the top tight control over new features in OOo development. I gather there have been some attempts from Sun to justify their controls, but my feeling is that OOo development image has taken a bit of a beating due to all these factors. BTW, I am installing 3.0.1 now. Cannot wait to see what new improvements are there. Also, I always get a kick out of creating a PDF by using the icon (though it is not difficult to get a PDF from MSO by installing a PDF exporting software). Regards. > > But, to each their own :D > > Wade > -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
