Star Text Formatting with OpenOffice.org Writer
Linked by Christian Paratschek on Fri 10th Sep 2004 05:18 UTC
Features, Office Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. I merely wanted to show that OpenOffice.org in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more.
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Reasons for using Latex
by seguso on Fri 10th Sep 2004 08:05 UTC

The main reason to prefer latex are for me the built-in algorithms that decide where to put pictures and tables.

Second, the fact that styles in ooo are relative to the paragraph, so I must always do a style three times:

text first paragraph,
text mid paragraphs,
text last paragraph
note first paragraph
note mid paragraph
note last paragraph

(the first paragraph must have space above and no indent,, the mid paragraphs must have no space and indent, and the last must have space below and indent)

This is boring, especially because a first paragraph often becomes a second, a last paragraph often becomes semi-last. So I have to continuously apply styles.

Third, the fact that I have to use emacs to type my documents, due to the completion feature (M-/ dabbrev-expand) :-)