The format used by that save file didn’t matter… it was the hardcopy that mattered. The writer of the document would be the only one who would ever have access to the save file. That was the thing people were going to see. Sorry it took me so long to reply… I didn’t see this message until just now.īack when I used word processors fairly often, the goal was to create a paper document. Would you elaborate a little on “using the save file from a given word processor as the final product”, and especially on “a closed, ever-changing, poorly-documented format as the standard”? Thanks! The idea of using the save file from a given word processor as the final product would have seemed absurd, and to have the world decide on a closed, ever-changing, poorly-documented format as the standard would have been even more absurd. The save file was merely an intermediate step on the way to the final product! Back when I did use a word processor a lot, the idea was to print the document and make a final hardcopy– no one ever saw the save files but me. I have LibreOffice installed on my PC, but I have to admit that I haven’t given its word processing bit a good workout, as it has been quite a while since I have had to use a word processor to write anything.
What version of LibreOffice are they using? I would hope this kind of thing would be a priority for fixing, and maybe it has been fixed, and the individuals in question are simply using older versions of the software. With any luck, this drawback of LibreOffice relative to MS Office has been improved since the last time we saw a document done in the former. There may be other office suites out there that also have a high degree of MS Office compatibility, but I don’t know what they might be. SoftMaker Office, on the other hand, offers pretty good compatibility, the only issues cropping up in files featuring unusually complex formatting. Someone has to tediously go through the whole file deleting most of the hard returns–you can’t even do a global search-and-replace because then the entire manuscript turns into one single enormous paragraph. If during editing you rewrite a sentence (say, deleting or adding words), you end up with short lines in the middle of a paragraph, unpredictably. In our experience, the worst issue to deal with is soft returns that for some reason get turned into hard returns. We occasionally receive manuscripts written in LibreOffice and they’ve been a nightmare. LibreOffice is a possibility, depending on BB’s requirements.
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