Re: [tlug] Poll: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

On 05/14/2014 04:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> I'm curious which TLUG'ers prefer for Japanese, OpenOffice or
> LibreOffice?
>
> Feel free to respond privately at stephen@example.com, if I get any
> private responses I'll summarize later.
>
> Steve
Using LibreOffice 3 because LO4 takes too much work to keep completely E 
<-> J bilingual.  Imap-mozc has improved the situation greatly but it 
still isn't 100%.  I was using OpenOffice until whatever rift in The 
Force caused it to fork and didn't see much reason to reject the 
pre-installed LibreOffice that was offered in Kubuntu / Debian KDE -- 
except upgrading seems a little more obtuse in LO.  My main documents 
directory is still named "OpenOffice" and has remained unchanged since 
somewhere back around Kubuntu 7-point-whatever.

I work in a field that requires frequent bilingual submissions to 
various Departments and Offices of the Uncle of Us All, and their most 
recent set of standards for submitted work is .doc or .docx, when it 
isn't also .pdf.  In those cases when I absolutely have to send in a 
Word format, I save a copy of the .odt file to .docx but open and 
re-edit the output as metatags get lost, line spacing and bulleting 
commands change, and layout can get flat out strange.  I am told that 
the resulting file always "looks good" when viewed on downgraded 
WIN-running machines produced and maintained by the lowest bidder.

Biggest gripe is that the files I produce with LibreOffice in WIN 7 
(running in a VBox) are not instantly readable in LibreOffice running on 
my Debian Wheezy desktop  (some JGOV, UN, and USGOV databases and 
information sites do not permit logging in with anything other than IE / 
Safari or, alternatively Moz running on RealMS or RealApple, so I 
frequently have to capture and re-send data internally).  This despite 
hours spent making sure that font choices, formatting commands and 
layout was set exactly the same in both OSes.  I've tried drag n' drop, 
sending files from one of my Gmail accounts to another then saving into 
the "other" OS, saving to / downloading from a shared MS network disk, 
sharing via a cloud account, and saving on a USB stick and opening it in 
the other OS.

YMMV (and, it probably will)

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CL