Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles (collaborating on documents)

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Brian Barker wrote:

> At 16:41 03/05/2013 +0000, Felmon Davis wrote:
> > 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.
>
> But surely that's different?  You've been appointed to "do up the final 
> report", so you can do what you like with the final text - even just taking 
> it out as plain text and reformatting from scratch.  The earlier 
> conversations where about situations where all members of a collaboration had 
> equal rights to impose formatting - and where the formatting itself was 
> perhaps a relevant point of discussion and agreement.

I am confused. Wolfgang spoke of two users. but granted that would 
also be a problem if each user claims the prerogative to determine 
formatting. most occasions I encounter no one claims such a 
prerogative, each goes their own way, but also most people I deal with 
don't do any significant formatting to start with.

so what is the context of discussion?

a) several individuals passing documents to and fro and
b) each with a lot of formatting and
c) each preferring their own formatting to others'?

this indeed is a 'war of all against all' but then it's less a matter 
of word-processor vs latex or something but a problem of organization 
and coordination.

> Where it is appropriate, what you describe is indeed the way to go: 
> to develop and agree on the content separately from the format. 
> The format is either locked down from the start or imposed 
> separately at the end.  That's what intelligent web authoring 
> arrangements use, of course.

sorry if I was off topic.

F.

 >
> Brian Barker

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Felmon Davis

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