[libreoffice-users] Top posting

Hi :)

Most people and especially those that are new to the lists will
top-post because that is what they are most familiar with.  Office
workers have almost never seen any alternative.  Unless the office apps
are not aimed at office users then it's ridiculous to expect anything else.   

Is it good to start off by telling people off for not doing things your way when we are supposed to 
be offering them choices?  Should we alienate people and make them feel that to use LibreOffice 
they have to completely change their entire lifestyle?  Is our main aim here to change the way 
people post or is it to help people move to LibreOffice?

Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Wed, 22/2/12, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:

From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing LibreOffice - problem
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: "Tom Davies" <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wednesday, 22 February, 2012, 17:47

On 2012-02-22 7:34 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 22/2/12, Tanstaafl<tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>  wrote:
> > On 2012-02-21 4:15 PM, Gregory Forster<glf.libreoffice@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > When reading and modifying Microsoft Power Point files  OpenOffice.org
> > > did a considerably better job than LibreOffice 3.4.5 (for business
> > > purposes).

> > Disagree... I have had much better MSO format support in the later
> > versions of Libreoffice than Openoffice ever provided...

> I think Impress and Base need a bit of work but Writer and Calc are
> quite fantastic for this sort of thing. Well, for the most part imo.

Please stay in context Tom - and PLEASE stop top-posting in an inline posted thread (I expect this 
admonition to fall on deaf ears because you have already demonstrated your blatant disregard for 
respecting the List Posting Guidelines, and refuse to acknowledge the difference between *blindly* 
*bottom* posting and intelligently in-line posting).

The complaint wasn't about general file format support, it was comparing OOo (prior to LibO 
splitting off) to subsequent version of LibO.

I maintain my comment that *all* version of LibO have been at least as good, but mostly much 
*better* than prior version of OOo...

Charles

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