Re: [libreoffice-users] In-Line Headings

On 01/26/2014 06:25 PM, Joel Madero wrote:
> > This is somewhat doable. See this old tutorial:
> > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=709
> >
> > Apart from being extremely tedious, it forces you to have some white
> > space ABOVE paragraph with run-in heading. Or, in other words, to have
> > some spacing between two paragraphs.
> > This is against typographic rules of some countries, and therefore not
> > really applicable.
> Good to know, so completely a valid request. Apparently some academic
> works require a format which we cannot achieve.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Best,
> Joel

I never heard of the no-space/line requirement between paragraphs, 
except if you use indented first lines for each paragraph.  Well, I am 
in the USA, and every time I went back to college and needed to buy a 
new "English writing" book, it seems that things keep changing.  New 
ways to do footers and bibliography references, plus a whole lot more. . 
. .

So if seem to be a fact that other countries would have different 
writing standards than we do.  We keep changing ours, or at least we did 
in the 80's, 90's and early 00's.

So as an International software package, that is used to create 
documents of various types, we need to make it work for as many of the 
writing standards and styles, for as many countries and languages, as 
our developers can make work.

"some academic works"?  Which "works"?

What type of works do you have in mind?

For those "academic works" . . .
Can it be done without "styles" but not with the current way that the 
"styles" operate?  Am I correct in this?  I am getting into this thread 
late so I do not have all of the information.

I use to use a typewriter, before I has a DOS computer and printer, for 
some of my "academic works".  Then I used a PC-XT dual floppy with dot 
matrix printer with PC-DOS.  Then I got Windows and Word 95.  I ended my 
"academic writing" with Word 2003, since that was the last one out when 
I finished my 3rd degree.  I was looking into OpenOffice.org in its 
early days of not being able to read/write .doc files.  Then I got into 
LibreOffice about a month after its first release, not RC.

I am very glad that LibreOffice is out there for the current crop of 
students, from 12 to 62 years of age.  I wish I had it for most of my 
college classes and even before that in Horseheads Junior and Senior 
High Schools.  LO would have made a great deal of help, back then.

How about the original poster and the others help out the "Academic" 
development marketing by listing all the things that LO does not do 
properly for your region or area of study, and what it does do and help 
with it.  Then we can work on make it better for the students, current 
and future, who rely on FOSS packages instead of MS packages.

We really need to market LO in the schools more, a lot more even if that 
is all some people do, so we can get users use to using LO instead of 
the alternatives.  Get them early and they will stay with LO and FOSS.  
Even if they are forced to use MS on the job, they will use it 
everywhere else.
.



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