On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/09/2012 07:33 AM, Pasha R wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 03/10/12 19:54, Pasha R wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Is it possible to install OOo alongside LO on F17? >>> >>> As a matter of curiosity, why would anyone want to have both OO and LO >>> installed simultaneously? Aren't they mostly feature-equivalent and/or >>> compatible? >>> >>> Unless you are into research about feature-for-feature comparison between >>> LO >>> and OO, what's the point of having them both on the same machine? >>> >>> Best, :-) >>> Marko >> >> Mostly, to be on safe side. I prefer to use software provided by >> distro as much as possible, but sometimes, OOo does better job >> converting MS office documents, so I prefer it as a backup option. > > > Well, I just converted to LibreOffice when I finally upgraded to F17 from > F14. And I notice two improvements right away. I run two WordPress sites and > have signed on as a consulting admin on a third. And when I used to use the > "Paste from MS Word" option in the WordPress Visual Editor, OpenOffice would > always paste in some extraneous paragraph-formatting code. And I could never > turn it off. > > LibreOffice does /not/ give me that problem. When I paste LibreOffice text > into WordPress, I get no extraneous code, nothing I have to go to the HTML > window to clean out. I get all my headings, attributes, and links just the > way I laid them out. > > Second improvement: clearing formatting shouldn't clear links. OpenOffice > would always clear the links when I cleared the formatting. LibreOffice does > not. > > And it has all the functions I knew and loved with OpenOffice. Thus far I've > had no cause to regret the switch. > As I said, OOo and LO have different bugs, that's why I would like to have them both installed. Sometimes, OOo works better, sometimes LO does the job. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
