On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 Francesco Pietra <chiendar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello: > With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) > not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found > abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. > Suddendly, abiword was able to destroy nearly completely the content > of the big table. > > Should my experience be representative, it would be better not to > propose text editors that are unable to do what they should. > I'm happy to keep both. I find Abiword able to display some Word documents which LibreOffice cannot, and vice versa. I'd have to be fairly desperate to actually create a Word document with either, or even edit one. Don't forget, Word itself is extremely poor at maintaining document formatting across versions or even with a different printer selected. Word has never been a DTP application, despite large numbers of people thinking that it is. It is a document processor, designed to maintain the flow and order of large volumes of text with embedded tables and graphics, without much attention to layout. I'd use it to write a book, but not a CV. If someone demands a Word document, I would normally send an RTF file, which is somewhat more predictable and will open in any Word, and even then I'd use quite large margins. I do actually have a full Office 2007 on Windows 7, but there has to be money involved before I'll use it. I hate Word more than possibly any other piece of MS software, except perhaps Edlin (which is still part of Windows 7). -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120630105857.33a1e...@jretrading.com
