Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:51:10 -0400, Mike McCallister  
<workingwriter@prodigy.net> wrote:

> On 8/18/2013 10:11 AM, Urmas wrote:
> > "Werner F. Bruhin":
> > > Now a productive use of time would have been to tell us what the one
> > feature you would like to have which existed in Word 2.0 in 1991 and
> > doesn't exist in LO.
> >
> > Paragraphs longer than 65k characters?
> > Custom languages?
> > Normal view?
> > (Working) multiple indexes?
> Really? You want to be able to write a 20-page PARAGRAPH? I'm not sure  
> even James Joyce would have been up to that task. Now show me the person  
> who's going to read it!
>
> I can see why Microsoft might not want to devote resources to setting a  
> reasonable limit on paragraph size, but since all the formatting  
> information sits in the pilcrow at the end of each paragraph, I would  
> not be shocked if suddenly the font changes to 72-point Arial Black Bold  
> somewhere in the middle of the mega-graph. If this happens, you probably  
> wouldn't be able to re-apply the Normal style either.
>
> Urmas presumably would angrily phone Microsoft to demand an answer: the  
> tech support person (after rolling her eyes and stifling  a chuckle)  
> would calmly suggest "Have you tried putting in a hard return somewhere  
> before the font changes?"
>
> Remember what your English teacher taught you (I suspect this is true in  
> most languages, too; even "custom languages"): Paragraphs are groups of  
> sentences that "deals with one point or gives the words of one speaker."  
> (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paragraph)
>
> Michael McCallister
> who strings sentences and paragraphs together for a living

The standard for typing speed is 5 characters per word. For 65K characters  
is roughly 13K words. A paragraph this long would definitely need some  
editting. An English composition teacher would have a field day with the  
red pen.

--
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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