On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:40:02AM +1100, Roger wrote: > <snip> > >There's no whining and trolling, and nobody hates Libroffice. > >It's a discussion about facts which affect real life. When you have to > >present at University/College, you urgently want your presentation to > >have the same (=100% identical) look it had when you developed > >it. Although Libreoffice and Microsoft Office are format-compatible, > >layouts and formattings often don't look the same. > > > >And this *is* a problem. A real one. > </snip> > > I have to agree. > For me, this has been an ongoing problem for years. OpenOffice and > now LibreOffice both have not formatted well when processing or > producing word docs. > Roger time for my two cents: I do everything in vi simply because my fingers know it. in my essays I indicate italics by *this*: ascii delimited by asterisks. translating this to word-processor format--Openoffice-- was accomplished by an expression a regex guru described:: Click at the beginning of the document then use Find & Replace. Check "Regular Expressions". Search For: \*([^\*]*)\* Replace With: $1 Select Format > Font > Italic for the Replace With box. Click Replace All. worked flawlessly for OOo; not so with libreoffice. [[ and yeah, I tried several times. ]] > 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 -- Gary Kline kline@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. -- 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
