On 7/3/13, James Boyk <[email protected]> wrote: > Please excuse this intrusion. I have been using OpenOffice (now 3.4.1) > on my Mac (now 10.6.8) for a couple of years, at the recommendation of > a physicist/programmer friend (who, however, uses OO on a PC). > > As experienced on my Mac, OO is absurdly defective. I would happily > pay for an hour of time from someone knowledgeable to see if there's > some obvious thing wrong or if I should get another word processor > (the only OO function I use). > > OO font size changes spontaneously, e.g., from 12 pt. to 10 pt. > Sometimes I Save in 12 pt., and when I Open the file, it's 10 pt.
Hello, I have several recommendation for you: a) Work with OpenDocument formats (odt) b) Have a look at our Help guide, working with styles. Styles: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Introduction_to_Styles Tempates: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Working_with_Templates c) I would suggest to also read about OpenOffice Writer unique features such as Navigation http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Using_the_Navigator > > The font changes spontaneously, too; or rather, certain points in the > document turn out to have different fonts associated with them. I'll > be working in Courier New and will put the cursor at a point where I > want to enter some new material; and it will appear in Palatino or > another font that's not Courier New. > > Text does not 'flow.' That is, there are gaps many lines long that > don't fill up automatically with succeeding text. > > Many things are unintelligible. Help function is useless. (No, I do > not participate in forums for such things.) > > For what it's worth, I have a BA in math, and was a programmer in the > '60s at Hughes Aircraft, System Development Corp. and Owens-Illinois. > I taught at Caltech for 30 years, including supervising many student > projects involving programming. I mention these things just to make > clear that, while I'm not technically up to date, I'm not a dope about > programming, either. But I have never seen an application that is so > opaque as OO, and so exhausting to work with. It just *can't* be the > case (I say to myself) that the developers find this behavior acceptable. > > If you can point me to someone really knowledgeable, I'll happily pay > that person for 30 or 60 minutes of phone consultation. > > (So what word processor *have* I liked? Hands-down, WordPerfect, which > I used from ver 4.1 to 5.2, giving it up only because I switched to > the Mac. The lack of WP is the one thing I don't like about using a > Mac. I have written a novel in MS Word on the Mac, and consider Word > shockingly bad. It is for "creating documents," I supposed; whereas > WordPerfect--at least as I experienced it for years, including writing > a short book and much else--is for Writing! > > > Yours, > > > James Boyk > Los Angeles > > www.JamesBoyk.com > www.performancerecordings.com/ > > for information only > At California Institute of Technology > Pianist in Residence 1974-2004 > www.its.caltech.edu/~boyk/ > Lecturer in Music in Electrical Engineering, > Founder/Director of Music Lab, 1979-2004 > www.its.caltech.edu/~musiclab/ > > IN CONCERT > Debussy "Reflets dans l'Eau" 6:20 > http://tinyurl.com/77abuhq > Beethoven Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33 21:24 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GXgvpGfok&feature=relmfu > Prokofiev Sixth Sonata: Finale 6:47 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQyaM2hzhuI > > TEACHING Int'l Keyboard Institute & Festival, 2011 > Piano Teaching-Moments 4:44 > http://youtu.be/W7wRxkzi36I > What I Wish I'd Been Taught 4:54 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEJDEiZWGo8&feature=relmfu > For Gifted Young Pianists 4:39 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdTjmWS3TU&feature=relmfu > > TEACHING Calif. Inst. of Technology > with 'Cellist 2:02 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g-9eHdAhMs&feature=relmfu > with Violinist 4:45 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7hB95zj-M&feature=relmfu > with Pianist 1:37 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=uotNrUtNtdY&feature=relmfu > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
