Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

Il 29/09/2012 20:10, Wolfgang Keller ha scritto:
> > > - actually useful formatting concepts for presentations like e.g.
> > > LaTeX Beamer provides.
> >
> > Could you elaborate? I don't know Beamer (I have heard the name, but
> > never really used it) and I am interested in knowing what it has to
> > offer that LO is not capable of.
>
> Everything that you get from LaTeX: structure markup instead of
> spaghetti formatting, parameterized formatting, etc...
>
> Instead of clicking through dozens of dialogboxes for each and every
> line of text, slide title, list item, figure, etc. to get everything the
> way you want it, you just change a few parameters once for the whole
> document and that's it.

LibO/OOo already provides this. As did MS Word 5.x for DOS around 1994. 
It's called "styles". Which incidentally don't provide only formatting 
information, but also tell the word processor where that particular 
paragraph (or title) sites in the document hierarchycal structure.

> > As side note of my question: I don't think that LO should mimic every
> > feature of LaTeX, especially WYSIWYM approach (instead of current
> > WYSIWYG). I strongly believe that target group of LibreOffice is
> > different than target group of LaTeX. LaTeX is already free, vital
> > community exists, there are dedicated editors - users who prefer
> > LaTeX approach can just use LaTeX.
>
> I just cited LaTeX as one example for structure markup. Other examples
> are Wordperfect or Framemaker. My point is that LO should not keep the
> MS Office-style "spaghetti" content models that were already outdated in
> the 80s and pile up features on top, but instead LO should focus on
> providing a functional concept that allows users to work with documents
> in a more structured and thus more efficient way. MS Office is by far
> the worst "example" in the market. And, as such, the example *not* to
> follow.

Are you complaining that OpenDocument format (which not long ago became 
an ISO standard) uses a "spaghetti content model" ?

> Sincerely,
>
> Wolfgang

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