Hi guys, THis discussion should really be moved to discuss or social. However, I see that some of you really like WP so I thought that the following might encourage you to accept OOo as it is and go on to other more important things.
For example, you can get WP for the download from Item Price(CAD) Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Full $379.99 Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Upgrade $199.99 Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Full (198 MB) (Download Version) $379.99 Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Upgrade (198 MB) (Download Version) $189.99 On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 19:35 -0800, Max G. Kluth wrote: > You are very right, this is indeed getting very frustrating. Many samples > have been cited why Reveal Codes are wonderful, and why they are utter crap. > Who don't we come to the censensus that an old German proverb so nicely > indicates: > > Wat dem einen sin Uhl, is dem anners sin Nachtigal (sort of oldish dialect), > in English: > What's one persons Owl, is the other persons Nightingale... > > Or, as the fine Karneval (Mardi Gras) obsessed people from Cologne would > say: > > Jede Jeck is anders (Every Fool is Different...) > > You are right. Reveal Codes are fabulous. They were when I used WordPerfect > up to 5.1 on DOS. I miss them. And you are right, stylesheets are fabulous, > which I used on the old Atari 1040, native and turned by emulation into a > Mac, when the voice of the Hamburg kid that wrote the original StarWriter > which begat StarOffice which was bought by Sun which released it into Open > Source, when said kids voice hadn't even changed yet... > > And, if it is true that 90% of office suit users and such programmes use > perhaps 10% of the features, then the whole discussions are moot anyway. The > 10% that do take advantage of more would be computer savvy enough to do > anything they like with whatever they have, no matter what is said, and to > their great satisfaction. And the extortionate and almost criminal > incremental "upgrades" and "totally new versions", especially for the file > formats which puts most people literally at gunpoint, of a company like > Microsoft would probably be laughed off the internet. Alright already, I'm > running... > > Before I disappear around the corner: why not point any new appearance of > this thread firmly to the archives and cut 'em off after... > > I lift my glas to the celebration of glorious differences... > > To civilized differences, of which there are very few around these days. > > > > "Rod Engelsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > : Ries, Wolfgang wrote: > : > snip > : > > : > I haven't tried the macro that was apparently written to simulate WP > : > reveal codes, but would strongly advise the relevant programmers to look > : > at the reveal code facility again and not just to brush it aside. > : > Remember WP is still in the market and those serious regarding the > : > flexibility of the reveal codes (and now be able to print the text with > : > all the formatting codes as well), may well opt to pay for a WP 12 > : > package - even if it is expensive. I may be one of them. > : > > : > : Honestly, this is getting frustrating. For the umpteenth time... > : > : THERE ARE NO CODES TO REVEAL IN OPENOFFICE.ORG! > : > : It isn't stubbornness, it isn't perversity, it isn't some kind of smug > : superiority. The plain fact of the matter is that "Reveal Codes" simply > : doesn't make any sense in the context of OOo. None, zero, zip, nada. > : > : I mean, what is it? Do you people think we're just lying to you? > : > : Here's a fact for you: The only reason for "Reveal Codes" in Wordperfect > : is to allow you to manually correct the horribly goobered up mess that > : you get yourselves into with their stream tokens. I know, I've seen > : those kinds of messes in WP 5.2. > : > : Object model vs. stream-token model. Two different concepts, two > : different paradigms. In one, RC is extremely useful, in the other, RC is > : as meaningless as feathers on a cat. It's a categorical error, a > : difference in types. It's like the difference between bitmap editors and > : vector graphics. They both make pictures but they do it in completely > : different ways. And they are both good at some things and lousy at others. > : > : Bottom line: If Wordperfect fits your needs and the way you work, then > : by all means *use it*. Because if what you really, really, need is a > : program that operates in the exact, particular, way that Wordperfect > : operates then Writer will not, and can not, ever satisfy those needs. > : > : -- > : > : Rod > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
