[libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles

On 5/5/13 9:29 AM, Doug wrote:
> Last night I replied to a posting from Andrew K., and I thought I sent
> it to the list, but apparently9 I didn't. So here it is:
>
> On 05/04/2013 11:14 PM, Andrew K wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use styles as much as I can, just to achieve consistent formatting,
> > to say nothing of time saving.
> >
> > I find that most people I know who use word processors as a (barely
> > glorified) typewriter are those who are most resistant to using styles.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > O
> 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.
> That's fine, altho there are probably better programs to do that, even
> available to Linux users. 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--one which
> can import whole paragraphs, move them, or existing ones around, correct
> spelling errors without retyping, so some editing--all the
> things I might have done on my typewriter, except now so much faster and
> easier.  Let the publisher of my document format it with
> his desktop publishing app.  He doesn't need a word processor, he needs
> its big brother--but I don't!

It's really a case of people using the wrong tool for their job.  Like 
anything else, no one size fits all.

From your description of what you use the program for in another post, 
it sounds to me like even LO is far more than you need.  If you use 
Windows, you might be able to use just the Wordpad accessory.  Or 
Abiword, Kingsoft Office Free, and other less powerful programs.

My uses tend to be in the middle range.  Wordpad, or TextEdit on the 
Mac, doesn't offer enough formatting options or abilities.  And 
Pagemaker, Quark Express, Calamus, and high end page layout programs are 
vast overkill.  So a good word processor, document processor, or low end 
page layout software suits my uses fine.

IMO, too many users simply take others' advice rather than experimenting 
and learning for themselves.


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Ken

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