Re: [libreoffice-design] Introduction

Hi Alex, Nathaniel!

Somehow missed to respond to this mail ... thanks for the reminder,
Alex ;-)

Nathaniel, welcome to the team ... if you have any questions or
comments, then please go ahead :-)

Cheers,
Christoph

Am Freitag, den 16.09.2011, 22:02 +0200 schrieb Alexander Wilms:
> Hi Nate,
>
> Welcome to the team :)
>
> Alex
>
> Am 14.09.2011 17:39, schrieb Nathaniel Schultz:
> > Heh, I joined the lists a month or two back, but work got hairy, and 
> > then it ended. Suffice it to say, I was distracted.
> >
> > My applicable background is primarily user-interface design and 
> > programming. (I'm also a bit of a data guy and my degrees are in 
> > bioengineering, so I don't actually consider myself a programmer, or 
> > even UI designer, but I've done both.)
> >
> >
> > I've been doing things with Star Office & kin for quite some time, and 
> > switched to Libre Office this year. (What can I say? SVG support sold 
> > me. I hate juggling resolutions on bitmaps in documents.)
> >
> > One thing I've noticed in OO.o and friends is the continual 
> > improvement. When I wrote my thesis, my school used some really picky 
> > formatting rules. In OO, The only way to consistently achieve that was 
> > manually tweaking the page and paragraph formatting. I ended up using 
> > another word processor. Now, the solution would be tricky & ugly, but 
> > it's possible.
> >
> > (The school's rules have now relaxed considerably, too: Now that Libre 
> > Office can do the picky stuff, the new grad student don't have to.)
> >
> >
> > In many significant ways, I consider Libre Office already superior to 
> > MS Office, but I'd like to assist making that unconditional. I've been 
> > pondering a few issues, and actually have a few specific comments to 
> > lay on you shortly.
> >
> > -Nate Schultz



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