[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 126608] Writer: Can't switch to Portrait

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126608

Wolfgang Jäger <jag@psilosoph.de> changed:

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--- Comment #60 from Wolfgang Jäger <jag@psilosoph.de> ---
(This is about the funniest bug report with discussion I ever read, and part
ofr it is the way I cam to read it...)

After more than half an hour of thorough reading and wondering and admiring the
patience of next to everybody contributing here, I still miss one hint that
probably might help Todd to understand better the background of his (and other
"ordinary user's") problem: 

There isn't anything like a "single page" in a Writer document. The pages
addressed by Todd only are created ON THE FLY when parts of the document need
to be rendered on a screen or to be printed. This also happens to sometimes
cause differences in the page wrapping on different devices without any changes
in the document. In addition any simpele change in the font size for a part of
the text will often cause changing page numbers e.g. The pages do not exist as
objects as paragrphs and shapes and tables and OLE ojects and... do.

Since less well designed software like Word seems to disguise these facts,
users unfortunately "software-socialized" by MS expect bad behaviour insofar
also for different software. Just look at the many "automatic styles" needing
to be created if a MS-Word document is converted to the much more advanced ODF
standards. 

Well, there are glitches in LibreOffice. However, if the concepts needed to
understand the behaviours of MS Office and of LibreOffice are inconsistent we
should try to shift to the ODF conforming ones as the better ones. 

This said I would back propositions made by Regina an others to make the ODF
related facts more clear to the "ordinary user", and by that mainly to reduce
the danger of misunderstandings having shown up in this thread. 

That regression to standards of Word cannot be a way goes without saying.

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