Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: status of "macro in ODF" interoperability?

Hi :)
Fair points!  Yep, Jon and Pedro are right that a lot of stuff can be
automated more easily by using macros and M. Fioretti is right that even
stuff that might be better done by other means is probably easier for "the
average user" to do with a macro.  As for the proliferation of macros for
MSO i'd say that is an argument in favour of more people publishing more
Extensions but also for translations or redesigns of those for LO (and for
AOO and AndroOO if possible)

Regards from
Tom :)


On 25 July 2014 18:17, Jon Harringdon <jonathan.harringdon@virgin.net>
wrote:

> Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > TomD wrote
> > > If people really just want to do everything the MS way but have a kinda
> > > cheap MS clone then they are really missing out on a lot of the wealth
> of
> > > opportunity that OpenSource offers.
> >
> > I think you are being an Open Source fundamentalist. Creating and using
> > macros doesn't drag you to the dark side of the force...
>
> Agreed. Any complex software with which I'm going to spend a significant
> amount of time has to have strong and well integrated automation
> features (call it macros or whatever you will). Otherwise I'll look
> elsewhere, at least in the long run.
>
> (On a slightly related note, one thing that I really, really like in LO
> and always have missed in MS Office is the ability to use regular
> expressions for search and replace... in a sense, that's also a sort of
> powerful automation feature!)
>
> @Tom: wishing for a reliable and powerful macro language is NOT asking
> for an MS clone!
>
> Jon
>
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