<html><head></head><body>Alignment issues between word and libreoffice can be nearly eliminated by adding and using the liberation font collection. They are a glyph for glyph replacement for the MS TT font set that word defaults to on windows platforms. Word on Mac is just screwy. <br>
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It never ceases to amaze me how most people ignore styles and manually place everything with spaces and tabs and then will scream a fit if they don't have the exact version of word they "need". Abiword would make a better tool for them. (abiword is pretty awesome and is suitable for probably 95% of all word processing needs.)<br>
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A failure of styles is the lack of a visual example with comments to explain usage for the standard styles. <br>
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Libreoffice uses styles by default. And your paranoia is probably justified.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 3, 2015 12:55:29 PM EDT, Tom Freeman <tfreeman@intel.digichem.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br />I'm thinking that I should mark this [OT], but...<br /><br />I took another adjunct gig, and am currently reviewing a colleage's (sp?) <br />notes on the course. I _think_ these notes were created MS Word for Mac <br />(not certain), but whatever the origin, the change over to LibreOffice for <br />me has been causing some uglyness. Little things like adding a footer can <br />throw the formatting of the document for a loop, since the formatting is <br />based largely on tabs and new paragraph, with the odd table or table <br />inserted place in a frame for variety.<br /><br />I know many instruction books and courses suggest using styles rather than <br />various control characters, but nobody _uses_ styles on a deliberate <br />daily basis. I know I first ran into "styles" in a usable way about Word <br />Perfect 4.2 or 5.0 (don't remember), but that has been a quarter century <br />or so! I appears that most people continue to use the word process
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<br />the same way their grandparents used a manual typewriter!!<br /><br />In a dark thought, it occures to me that a dominant software provider is <br />_not_ pressing styles for the simple reason that it isn't their fault then <br />that documents are not cross platform, and thus organizations must stick <br />to the dominant provider. </paranoia><br /><br />My question is: "Is there a word processor in the wild that encourages or <br />requires the concious use of styles and templates for the creation of <br />documents?"<br /><br />A subquestion would be can LibreOffice/OpenOffice be reskinned to provide <br />much the same effect?<br /><br />I thank people for the use of their bandwidth, and appreciate their time.<br /><hr /><br />Ale mailing list<br />Ale@ale.org<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /><a
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