[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On 6/13/13 3:10 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> On 2013-06-14 02:48, Maurice Batey wrote:
> > Having installed Mageia-3 on a trial basis, I have come across an omission
> > in its LO 4.0.3.3 that I have been using on Mageia-2's LO 3.5.7.2, namely
> > 'Insert: Horizontal rule'
> >
> > The result is that any document prepared with 3.5.7.2 does not appear
> > correctly under 4.0.3.3.
> > 74
> > I see from:
> >
> > http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/14922/why-is-horizontal-line-broken-in-401/
> >
> > that the omission is a deliberate change rather than accidental (although it seems
> > the Help info still  thinks otherwise...).
> >
> > Why on earth drop a feature that people are using?
> > What is the rationale?
> >
> > Failing any other solution to my problem, is there any way I can copy the
> > 3.5.7.2 'ruler' file over in to 4.0.3.3 so that the latter shows the lines properly?
> For me the big issue is that MSO is flamed for poor backwards
> compatibility with and support of its own file types, "will you be able
> to open those MS files 10 years down the track", and now LO are heading
> the same way. Surely if the horizontal rule is to be dropped as such
> file compatibility can be maintained by converting to a drawn line
> object, as could removing compatibility with earlier files from the LO
> binary without moving the code to an optional plugin easily accessed
> from the binary.
> Steve

+1

So much for the big discussion earlier about how everyone should switch 
to ODT because the standard wouldn't change.    LOL

This just proves, that if you want those old files, you'd better have an 
old OS and software available to read them.


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Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.4
Firefox 20.0
Thunderbird 17.0.5
LibreOffice 4.0.3.3


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