Greetings,
I write this mail to speak about a well known problem : the treatment of images, and photos on LibreOffice when it takes a large file.
I had to confront this problem dealing with a thesis of 1000 pages which uses a list of 60 photos approximately in it. Yes, it is an extreme situation but it pointed out certain number of problems.
It is not a surprise for you to know that constituting a database of 60 photos with legend in a frame is a painstaking work by itself, but positioning these photos in the text was very counter-intuitive (I saw every possible tutorial on the subject) and even when it works, the slightest change within the document makes images change their place (event when protected) and even override the space of footnotes (some of them being specifically large).
Moreover, when passing to a master document, compiling the result is very problematic. Even though the formatting of the sub document is identical to the master document (size and font of titles, margins and page format, etc.) the images are displaced and jumps appear everywhere in pages. (Maybe a way to "fix" everything text in a sub-document ?)
Compiling needed systematically to
a
double update once in the master document navigation bar (the "red flag") and in tools->update all (or everything) for the jumps in text to disappear.
The second serious problem working with master document is references. If one has to make a reference to a title or a text or any element in another sub-document, the referencing fails.
It is a petty for such a wonderful program to have these serious lacks, because the importance of LibreOffice in academic production is not to be disconsidered even if LaTeX and other alternatives exists. LibreOffice is largely superior in structuring documents, TOC, footnotes than commercial alternatives, and it is WYSIWYG. I don't think I am the only one who shares this view.
It will be also wonderful if LaTeX is implemented within LibreMath as co-system of its already existing
mathematical
coding instead of an add-on.
I am myself (an aged) student in mathematics in France, and learned some programming languages. I don't know if I am competent enough to technically help in these issues, but willing to learn. At least I can surely install test variants of LibreOffice and give you feedback if necessary.
Thank you again for reading my mail.
Have a nice day.
