[libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles

On 5/5/13 12:20 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 05/05/2013 01:19 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > Doug wrote,

<snip>

> I write letters--where I have a heading saved as a file that I can
> import--and I write occasionally for publication, in which case I write
> double-spaced,
> extra space for paragraph, and no indent. I don't need any kind of
> "style" to do that--I can set the double space once per article--that is
> no more
> trouble than finding and turning on a preset style, which I could only
> do if I knew how to create it in the first place.

If I understand correctly your uses, sounds like all you need is two 
templates, and that would amount to the same thing.  :-)  Be quicker 
too, since you wouldn't have to import anything into a new document.

> And I edit material
> sent for a
> newsletter of some 1000 circulation, for which the publisher uses
> Pagemaker on a Mac to format it. I don't know, but I think  any kind of
> style
> setting would go bonkers seeing the formats that come in and trying to
> mold them into something consistent.

This sounds almost the exact way I'd have you do it if I was the 
publisher.  I'd tell you to do nothing but paragraph breaks, use a 
quality serif font to make proof reading easier on the eyes, and that 
would be it.  Don't even indent the paragraphs, nor add extra space 
between paragraphs.  Everything else and more can be done easily in 
Pagemaker, which is what the program is for.

> I mold them fairly easily in a word
> processor, by hand. And I save in MS .doc 1997~2003 format, because
> everybody in the world can read that.

I would save in plain text, then the publisher has no formatting to 
worry about deleting or cleaning up.  Plus, the overall file size would 
then be smaller.

> And I write emails, and all I need to
> do is fix typos, which styles can't do!

Grammar checkers, and spell checkers, aren't perfect either.    :-)


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