Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles

Doug,

Le 05/05/2013 17:29, Doug a écrit :
> I may be wrong, but it would seem to me that all this fuss about styles
> is made by people who are trying to do desktop publishing.

Styles are, obviously, a step towards DTP but, as you emphasize, a word 
processor is no DTP (as much as a word processor is no typewriter). 
Styles are a very powerful tool that makes ordinary users -- who do not 
intend to publish, just have correctly crafted documents -- gain time 
and energy. And, in the business, time is money.

But I can see what you're hinting: for those users who want to actually 
publish, such a tool like Scribus is the way to go. I share this 
thought, but DTP is a whole other beast that requires training on its own.

> I'm not ashamed to say that I use
> word processors as word processors, not as desktop publishers. I am very
> happy to have this glorified typewriter

There's a very wide gap between a typewriter -- as glorified as it could 
be -- and a word processor. I'm always insisting to users forget the 
typewriter (even if they never really use any, or even touched any) and 
acquire the concepts of word processors.

BTW, do you know the hardware piece where the evil comes from? The 
keyboard. A typewriter kb and a computer one are not the same although 
they look alike. They just look too much alike and the trainer has to 
show they are different.

--
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux

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