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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Wysiwyg versus The Rest
by Cogito Ergosum on Fri 10th Sep 2004 11:30 UTC

I have used (under protest) Digital Standard Runoff during the 80s and Latex during the 90s. I had endless problems getting diagrams anywhere near the related text, or nested lists to work properly.

Another serious problem with Latex was the use of standard included files as company policy. These files evolved over the years, with the result that old documents became unprintable.

Give me Wysiwyg every time, even the old DEC screen editor that managed little more than word wrap. (It did have a neat feature for inverting upper/lower case, or forcing the case to one of these.)

I am not so proud of my typing that I disdain the use of spell checkers or style checkers. I am surprised that the use of styles is seen as new by so many postings here.

Yours sincerely,
C. E.