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Comment Re: I can't (morally) read it... (Score 1) 36

1.) Did you download and install the required fonts? 2.) Are you aware that ragged right is frequently used n modern publishing? 3.) Are you aware that justified lines are high maintenance to do well? With many of the instructions having short lines, justification would be nightmarish? 4.) That a number of publishers use ODT (LibreOffice's default format for text) directly for their books? If you bothered to learn it, LibreOffice is a mid-level layout program, not just a word processor. I know, of course, that you are simply cocking an attitude based on little knowledge, but I'm surprised that you would want to display your ignorance.

Submission + - Second Edition of Designing with LibreOffice Available for Free Download

nanday writes: Second Edition of Designing with LibreOffice Available for Free Download

Bruce Byfield and Jean Hollis Weber announce the second edition of Designing with LibreOffice. The book is available as an .ODT or .PDF file under the Creative Commons Attribution/Sharealike License version 4.0 or later from:

https://designingwithlibreoffi...

The first edition was published in 2016, and was downloaded over thirty-five thousand times. Michael Meeks, one of the co-founders of LibreOffice, described the first edition as "an outstanding contribution to help people bring the full power of LibreOffice into their document." Similarly, free software author and journalist Carla Schroder wrote, "Designing With LibreOffice teaches everything you need to know about document production....suitable for beginners to wizened old pros, who will probably discover things about LibreOffice that they didn’t know.”

The second edition updates the original, removing outdated information and adding updated screenshots and new information about topics such as Harfbuzz font shaping codes, export to EPUB formats for ereaders, the Zotero extension for bibliographies, and Angry Reviewer, a Grammarly-like extension for editing diction. In the future, the writers plan to release other editions as necessary to keep Designing with LibreOffice current.

For more information or interviews, contact Bruce Byfield at bbyfield@axion.net.

Submission + - Giving GNOME 3 a GNOME 2 Look (datamation.com)

nanday writes: GNOME Shell Extensions have done more than any other set of features to make GNOME 3 usable. Nearly 270 in number, they provide a degree of customization that was missing in the first GNOME 3 releases. In fact, if you choose, you can use the extensions to go far beyond Classic GNOME and re-create almost exactly the look and feel of GNOME 2 while taking advantage of the latest GNOME 3 code.

Comment Re:I love Linux but... (Score 2, Informative) 475

Considering how much flack I've had in recent months for critical comments about KDE 4, I find this comment refreshingly funny. If you bothered to read, you'd see that, while I am very interested in what KDE 4.1 has to offer, I don't hesitate to say what is still missing, either. Oh, well. I must stop expecting the world to make sense; I'd be much happier that way. - Bruce Byfield ("nanday")

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