Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

Hi :)  
I have quite enjoyed a lot of this discussion.  I think a lot of the issues can't be fixed by the 
word-processor without blocking us from being able to mess around with stuff to give it our own 
personal flair.  

For example i tend to double-space at the end of sentences but if i was forced to do that and given 
no choice then i would resent it deeply.  When i get on my bike to go home from work i could always 
turn left to go out across the fields and down to the river and maybe a pub and i quite fancy doing 
that but somehow almost always turn right and go home.  If i was forced to always do one or the 
other i would resent it.  It's having the choice that is important.  LaTeX deals with some of these 
issues but by doing so it restricts people's possible choices.  

Another thing is that i tend to find that almost any "final document" produced by MS Office looks a 
bit shoddy and cheap.  There is always something that has gone a little wrong that we just have to 
put up with.  By contrast documents produced by LO just look so much more professional and polished 
that maybe we expect a bit too much from it sometimes.  A tool that can blatantly never get the job 
done, like Word, is forgiven minor issues more easily than a tool that is almost perfect, like LO.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 1:01
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting
>
>
> On 08/20/2013 06:01 PM, William Wells wrote:
> > While there is no ISO or equivalent, there are a lot of
> > wannabe:
> >
> > In the US:  The "real" expert (in the US) on this subject
> > seems to be
> > the Chicago Manual of Style.  It sets forth what Publishers
> > desire/want/will not accept unless it complies with
> > regarding submissions.
> >
> > Brits have The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Authors and
> > Publishers among others, and the EU has its own Style Manual
> >
> > Oh, and for students, there is the "Elements of Style".
> >
> >
> > There are Academic Styles, Styles for Medical writing ad
> > nauseum.
> >
> >
> > So, the devs could lose many hours sleep trying to
> > generate a program to cover all eventualities.
> >     
> I think there is a difference between a style for submitting a 
> manuscript to a publisher and a style for final publication. I 
> understand many publishers want manuscripts submitted in double spaced 
> type, which they would never use when actually publishing the book. Our 
> discussion has been more about good final product than initial submissions.
>
> Virgil
>
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