Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?

2014-02-23 4:08 GMT+01:00 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org>:

> On 02/22/2014 04:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> > It is called bottom or in-line posting, and is preferred by the more
> > technically inclined.
>
> Bottom and Top posting seems to be a personal preference often pursued
> with religious zeal (as you mention below). While quickly browsing, top
> posting is easier to follow unless your email client hides all previous
> posts for you. I installed an extension to do this in Thunderbird; without
> it, bottom posting is almost impossible to follow. The extension makes it
> easy to follow ongoing conversations regardless, but is annoying if you
> were not following things from the start and want to catch-up :-(

I don't use an email client, but the Gmail web interface also hides lines
from previous posts. They are however easy to view if you need to.
Unfortunately, top-posting seems to be the default mode for Gmail, but it's
easy to work around.


> in-line posting seems to be assumed for Thunderbird. Makes the response
> more like a conversation.
>
>
>  It is primarily Outlook users who prefer blind top-posting (ie, quoting
> > the entire message they are replying to and adding their comment at the
> > top).
>
> You must work hard to get Outlook to do anything else. I know you used to
> be able to convince Outlook to do otherwise. I don't even know if you can
> still do that. Every time MS releases a new version of something these
> days, it usually feels like I need to relearn the product. It annoys me.
>
> My limited exposure says that every large company using Outlook likely
> works in this way.
>
>
>  Most people who are rabidly anti bottom/inline posting will go out of
> > their way to complain about how bad bottom posting is, and will invariably
> > use BLIND bottom posting - quoting the ENTIRE message ABOVE your comment,
> > which is admittedly way WORSE than blind top-posting - as examples of why
> > bottom/inline posting is bad. They almost always simply refuse to even
> > acknowledge the difference between BLIND bottom posting, and inline posting
> > (quoting only the relevant portion, and putting your responses/comments
> > AFTER the relevant quoted text, which is much cleaner and easier to read
> > than even top-posting, mainly because you can clearly see the full context).
> >
> >  You can make everyone angry and happy by doing both. Place your entire
> message at both the top and the bottom :-)

And in-line. The angrier the better…




Johnny Rosenberg


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