LibreOffice version 4

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:40:02AM +1100, Roger wrote:
> <snip>
> >There's no whining and trolling, and nobody hates Libroffice.
> >It's a discussion about facts which affect real life. When you have to
> >present at University/College, you urgently want your presentation to
> >have the same (=100% identical) look it had when you developed
> >it. Although Libreoffice and Microsoft Office are format-compatible,
> >layouts and formattings often don't look the same.
> >
> >And this *is* a problem. A real one.
> </snip>
> 
> I have to agree.
> For me, this has been an ongoing problem for years. OpenOffice and
> now LibreOffice both have not formatted well when processing or
> producing word docs.
> Roger


time for my two cents:  I do everything in vi simply because my fingers 
know it.  in my essays I indicate italics by *this*: ascii delimited by
asterisks.  translating this to word-processor format--Openoffice-- was
accomplished by an expression a regex guru described::

  Click at the beginning of the document then use Find & Replace.

   Check "Regular Expressions".
   Search For: \*([^\*]*)\*
   Replace With: $1
   Select Format > Font > Italic for the Replace With box.
   Click Replace All.

worked flawlessly for OOo; not so with libreoffice.  [[ and yeah, I
tried several times. ]]




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