Hello. I wanted to reply this email, because I was having some minor usability issues about LibreOffice. Nothing too bad, but I wanted to share it with the team.
I was helping my gf to do some university work, I installed her LibreOffice because she was used to OpenOffice and no problems to it. But there were some stuff was difficult to make for her, and also a bit to me too. I may not be a Linux guru, but I have some years of experience as user. Here we go: - About style and grammar checkers: I find quite confusing that they aren't bundled with LO itself, I need to install different packages. Despite this can be done easily by people used to Linux, others may have difficulties to find the correct package. Also, I see there are different extensions for different languages, yet they use Java most of the time (I don't consider it an adequate technology not just because it's by Oracle, but is a bloated dependency and may make things worse for slower systems). I see there are Languagetool, it supports lots of languages but requires java. There's lightproof, requires Python (it's not so efficient too) and supports too few languages at this moment. This feature is also bundled by default in Microsoft Office and lots of people use it to proofread their documents. There's a lack of automatically analyzing words written in other languages like Latin (quite used for terms), too. - About dictionary: Are dictionaries so big to make them bundled by default? Why not include them? Also, there were a lot of missing words in the Spanish dictionary and some lack of understanding about able to write compound words in both ways (f.ex. psico-social and psicosocial). - About page enumeration: While I agree showing advanced options is a plus, stuff like this is somewhat messy and confusing. Seriously, I had to check a few tutorials to find a correct way to avoid page enumeration to the first pages of a document and I had some issues replicating it later. It's difficult to remember it and it seems I got confused with page style or something like that (I can provide further details if needed). I just wanted to share my opinion to others, maybe I'm wrong at it in some way. But at least I tried to contribute a bit :) Regards. (Sorry for my bad English) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
