However, if you want to enhance your document, the tools are waiting. Most of the time, you can trust the code to have a default that is, if not perfect, at least good enough for your purposes. For most purposes, the average user hardly cares about the length of the line that separates the main body of text and a footnote or the spacing between a bullet and a list item. Even if you use styles, you might not have noticed them fully.
If you format manually, you may be completely unaware of them. In fact, while not complete, Writer’s features are advanced enough that it should hardly be considered a word processor at all.Īdmittedly, the features of Writer often go unnoticed. As a result, they made sure that Writer was not simply a word processor, but a layout program as well – to the benefit of free software users ever since.
According to Mathias, when the Writer module was first developed several decades ago, its programmers were told they would have to use it to document their work. Years ago, Elizabeth Mathias, an employee of Sun Microsystems, told me a story about StarOffice, the proprietary program that became, and later LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.
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