Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

Hi :)
I wish MS had got that memo!  Sadly that seems to be the opposite of
MS's view.  So people have learned to;
1.  need to keep a print-out as "hard copy"
2.  assume every document to be unsable in 3 years time
3.  fight hard against any change or upgrade because they know it will
break their system and make everything unreadable.
4.  hate and mistrust IT because it's so unreliable and unpredictable

Hopefully we can help free people themselves from the mess they are in
but most times it's better to just sit back and feel smug, or even
laugh at them as they struggle on with things that LibreOffice,
OpenOffice, Caligra, AbiWord (and all the rest) make really simple and
reliable.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 26 March 2014 15:31, Wolfgang Keller <feliphil@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Perhaps, we could get folks past the Underwood model if office suites
> > stopped offering that as a legitimate option for creating typeset
> > documents.
>
> *Proper* document processing software should indeed *enforce* total
> separation of structure(d content) and style information through
> *exclusive*, *mandatory* use of stylesheets.
>
> And thus prevent people from producing un-reuseable spaghetti garbage.
>
> Because that's what IT is about in the first place: Making content
> easily re-usable.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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