[libreoffice-users] Re: Reproducing doc files

       Hoping that company thanks you for all your hard work fixing their
mess.



From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Reproducing doc files
To: anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>


On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:33:43 -0500
anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com> wrote:

>        Curiously wondering if you're saying
> that changing the font will change the meaning
> of the text  ;-) surely I've mis-read this
> message  ;-)
>
>
>
> From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:15:08 -0400
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Reproducing doc
> files.
>
>
> In general I use anything in preference to KDE
> Office apps, but a recent instruction received
> from a publisher in doc format was read more
> accurately in Calligra Word than in Libre Office
> 4.1.
>
> Specifically italic type was reproduced in
> oversized sans-serif bold face in Libre but was
> reproduced in oversized slanted type in
> Calligra. I misunderstood the publisher's
> desires until I used Calligra. He wants italics
> which is what I normally would have used in the
> particular situation in an index.
>
> Also in Libre certain bold face passages were
> interpreted as larger sans-serif type
> which caused some text to over print other text.
>
> Neither program scored 100% but Calligra came
> closer. So I will give it a closer look.
>
> Doc format is not my favorite choice of course
> but some customers insist on it.
>
> Copies of the original doc file are available on
> request.
>
>
> John Culleton
> Wexford Press
> Free list of books for self-publishers:
> http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
> PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus"
> available at
> http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Ok the product I am producing is an index. the
publisher wants a crazy format with lines like
this:
------------------------

maximizing the difference of @@ 1.8 2.28

bald eagle. See American bald eagle; endangered
species.
--------------------------
1.8 and 2.28 are paragraph numbers that the
publisher will convert to page numbers. This
is about three times as much work for me.

 The word See was in larger sans serif font. so when I did my index
that is what I used. but what was needed is the
normal practice, italics for the word See.

The word processor I use, Libre writer, had made
a font substitution in the doc file.

After I get paid for the index I will suggest to
them that:
a. the crazy format increases the amount I must
charge for an index.

b. Their instructions should be distributed as a
pdf with fonts embedded to avoid the kind of
error I made.


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