{"id":20610,"date":"2016-03-12T03:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=20610"},"modified":"2016-08-20T23:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T13:40:22","slug":"libreoffice-once-upon-a-time-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/libreoffice-once-upon-a-time-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"LibreOffice Once Upon A Time Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LibreOffice Once Upon A Time Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

One of my students is getting very good at Word Processing. Lately, her skills have been improving by being given the task of mimicking the look of pieces of hard copy documents with various levels of complexity.<\/p>\n

The other day we came across what we like to think of as the …<\/p>\n

Once upon a time<\/sup><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

… scenario, and try as we might fiddling with “top” justifications and font size adjustments we couldn’t get a good look in her “document processing” software to nicely (enough) line up the smaller font letters to the top of the bigger “O”.<\/p>\n

Were you annoyed by my “document processing” genericity? Hope not, because, in our experience, for the vast majority of scenarios that matter for day to day usage, there is adequate functionality to achieve what you want in any of Microsoft Office<\/a> or OpenOffice<\/a> or LibreOffice<\/a>. It just so happens today we work with LibreOffice, but, as we say, you’ll see the same things achievable in the other two “document processing” suites.<\/p>\n

Are you surprised if we tell you that the achievement of a neat looking Once upon a time<\/sup><\/span><\/i><\/b> in LibreOffice is quite difficult, we think, anyway?<\/p>\n

We think, though that the functionalities involved in achieving a solution revolve around …<\/p>\n