Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

My apologies to Kracked, as I didn't pay attention and sent this note 
directly when I intended to send it to the list.

On 3/25/2014 9:33 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:

> As a person who learned to type on a typewriter and learned
> programming on a mainframe computer [since the PC did not exist at
> that time], I have not learned how to do "styles".  Never really
> needed it, as far as I was concerned.   Yes, yes, I should learn it,
> but time to learn and play with styles is not an option for me currently.
>
> The key is, if people can do what they need, they way they currently
> do it, then why try to force them to learn how to do it another way -
> i.e. styles.

Within the provenance of this discussion, you are right that it is not 
the job of the software writers/programmers to force anyone to learn a 
way other than the one they are using. However, it is also not the job 
of the software writers/programmers to build into any particular 
software every method of doing things.

That philosophy leads to bloat, and bloat is bad, in my opinion. It also 
leads to stealing time from the task of adding new features and 
improving existing features. The writers/programmers have a finite 
amount of time. If the feature request mentioned earlier in this thread 
is accepted, then time will be spent on it. That means that time will 
not be spent on other things. And that, in my opinion, is waste.

Doug

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