Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

Hi :)
Hmm, there are many reasons for preferring non-MS.  Backwards compatibility is just 1 of the 
issues.  Current compatibility with it's own current formats is another.  A third is whether it's 
current formats work with non-MS products that do follow the OOXML ISO standard.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>
> To: maurice@bcs.org.uk 
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013, 22:10
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing
>
>
>
> On 2013-06-14 02:48, Maurice Batey wrote:
> > Having installed Mageia-3 on a trial basis, I have come across an omission
> > in its LO 4.0.3.3 that I have been using on Mageia-2's LO 3.5.7.2, namely
> > 'Insert: Horizontal rule'
> >
> > The result is that any document prepared with 3.5.7.2 does not appear
> > correctly under 4.0.3.3.
> > 74
> > I see from:
> >
> > http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/14922/why-is-horizontal-line-broken-in-401/
> >
> > that the omission is a deliberate change rather than accidental (although it seems
> > the Help info still  thinks otherwise...).
> >
> > Why on earth drop a feature that people are using?
> > What is the rationale?
> >
> > Failing any other solution to my problem, is there any way I can copy the
> > 3.5.7.2 'ruler' file over in to 4.0.3.3 so that the latter shows the lines properly?
> For me the big issue is that MSO is flamed for poor backwards 
> compatibility with and support of its own file types, "will you be able 
> to open those MS files 10 years down the track", and now LO are heading 
> the same way. Surely if the horizontal rule is to be dropped as such 
> file compatibility can be maintained by converting to a drawn line 
> object, as could removing compatibility with earlier files from the LO 
> binary without moving the code to an optional plugin easily accessed 
> from the binary.
> Steve
>
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