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

On 3/25/2014 2:55 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:
> On 3/25/2014 1:55 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > I imagine that there are, indeed, legitimate reasons why someone 
> > would want to control a master document through the sub-documents, 
> > but I would strongly suggest that before going that route, the user 
> > completely learns how to use the master documents the way they were 
> > designed. In the process, they just might find what they're looking 
> > for. I can't tell you the number of times I have found myself using 
> > LyX or Atlantis, or some other program because I believed "it 
> > couldn't be done with LO." Then after a little self-education, I find 
> > that it, indeed, *can* be done with LO, and I just wasted a lot of 
> > time using another program.
> >
> > My larger point, to which I still hold, is that far too many people 
> > do not take full advantage of their computers. Now, you might say 
> > this is a matter of personal preference, and so it is. But, in my 
> > profession (law), if a client is paying his lawyer $200.00/hour to 
> > write a legal brief, he'll save money if the lawyer learns how to 
> > fully use templates and styles. I've watched lawyers spend hours (at 
> > $200 a crack) typing a table of authorities, when MS Word or 
> > WordPerfect can automatically generate one in minutes. So, in *some* 
> > instances, our personal preferences *can* affect other people.
> >
> > And, my second point was that people continue to use less effective 
> > methods because office suites continue to make them available in 
> > their attempts to be "one size fits all" programs. While I agree it 
> > is necessary for them to remain marketable, I think it is unfortunate. 
>
> I admit that I, too, grew up using a typewriter and was an IBM 
> mainframe programmer, and as such could not really see any need to use 
> styles.  Then I got involved in constructing documents by 
> collaborating with co-authors located in various locations.  This gave 
> rise to the use of master documents and showed me the error of my 
> ways.  I also admit that even though I use page styles in my master 
> document creation, I've never been able to understand how to use the 
> paragraph and character styles and suspect that this might be limiting 
> my formatting ability in LO.  I tried to define a paragraph style but 
> had no luck.  How would you define a paragraph style to handle a 
> dictionary entry such as this:
>
> *canuscere*/v.t./ to know, to be familiar with.

I see my formatting was lost on that example.  The headword "canuscere" 
would be in 11 pt. boldface, while the rest of the line would  be in 9 
pt. normal, except that the "v.t." would be italicized.


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