🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 2018-04-23, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> writes:
>
>> In article <fk45t5...@mid.individual.net>,
>> Huge  <use...@huge.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> Microsoft are not idiots.  If they thought there was a market for
>>>> Office on linux they would port it to linux.
>>>
>>>No need. I interoperated with an office full of MS weenies for years
>>>using LibreOffice and no-one ever noticed.
>>
>> You were lucky.  I have done a lot of work that involves sending Word
>> docs back and forth and Libreoffice is hopeless if the docs use anything
>> beyond the simplest formatting features.
>>
>> I wish Libre worked better, but it doesn't.
>
> I used Word when working in environments in which interoperability was
> important until the day I was in a meeting, everyone had their laptops
> open to the same Word document, and no two were rendered the same.  Time
> to go ahead and use Libre Office.
>
> Besides 99% of the documents I see could only be said to have used the
> simplest formatting features if one were impossibly generous.  I once
> created a memo and used a table for the To, From, Subject fields -- when
> I got it back, the table had been taken out and those fields had been
> "formatted" using tabs.

It seems to me it's impossible to keep a Word document clean as soon
as there are multiple authors.  I might use the company "styles", add
a few of my own (for e.g. code samples) but after a while there's
manual formatting like you describe, and every other paragraph is
spell-checked as portuguese, or something.  Oh, and the intra-document
references are broken.

I see this as an argument against WYSIWYG in general, not Word in
particular.

/Jorgen

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