Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles

Hi :)
A big 

+1
to that.  

Regards from 

Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 3 May 2013, 17:41
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles
>
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2013, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
>
> > > I never even try to share documents between different programs, such
> > > as Word and LO or OO.
> >
> > I never even try to share documents between two users using both the
> > same program *and* the same document template, if the program is Word
> > (or LO /OO). With these applications, the re-use of content is
> > exclusively limited to raw, unformatted text. Trying anything else will
> > drive you up the walls.
>
> your walls must be very adhesive. I share documents with people all the time because a couple of 
> committees I've been on had me as the 'master of documents', that is, I would take other people's 
> work and bundle it together, edit and produce drafts for them to work on, then I would do up the 
> final report. they almost always are using some version of Word.
>
> sure, there are problems but my walls are pretty footprint-free. but I think this goes to show not 
> only are there different standards of tolerance for problems, there different magnitudes of 
> problems, thus, if I were dealing with 100 people instead of six or seven, it might be a different 
> issue.
>
> of course I'm not denying there are other solutions which are technically superior in some way. 
> but for many of us the situation is not as dire as you paint it, walls and all.
>
> F.
>
> > > If you need collaborative authoring, you need something that
> > *imposes* a pre-defined document structure (such as e.g. an XML
> > schema, LaTeX document classes unfortunately are not as restrictive) and
> > thus absolutely locks out *any* possiblity of "finger-painting", and
> > preferrably something that also provides seamless integration for
> > revision control systems such as e.g. Subversion.
> >
> > With LyX/LaTeX, structured XML authoring applications (or some document
> > processing applications like Worperfect or Framemaker, provided the
> > authors are perfectly disciplined), collaborative authoring is
> > possible to a certain degree.
> >
> > With Word (or LO/OO) it is strictly impossible at any reasonable
> > degree of efficiency.
> >
> > If there was a way in LO/OO to imperatively re-strict the user interface
> > for a certain document to the application of styles defined within the
> > document, this might improve things, but given how styles are
> > implemented in LO/OO, I doubt that it would really work. Besides that
> > styles don't hold structure information anyway, since templates aren't
> > schemas in LO/OO.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Wolfgang
>
> -- Felmon Davis
>
> You'd like to do it instantaneously, but that's too slow.
>
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