[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 129434] [META] Writer (EDITING) Suggested features for authors.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129434

--- Comment #6 from Lynne Connolly <lynneconnollyuk at yahoo.co.uk> ---
That all sounds fantastic! Very promising!

On point 2, the document opening at the place I left it, I know that LO can do
it with Shift F5, but only when the document is saved in the open source
format, and it doesn't do it automatically, nor does it open the last document
used automatically (it's an option in AWP, so it can be switched off if
preferred).
The industry standard for novels with publishers, Amazon and the rest is in
.docx so that's an extra step and sometimes it introduces a few quirks like
extra spaces. Best to stick to the same format.

The bugs I reported before are the ones with capitalisation. They discovered
why it was happening, but didn't offer any solutions to the problem. Only some
very odd ones which I tried but weren't acceptable. Eventually I got tired of
fighting uphill, and just thanked them and left, finding a word processor that
would do it instead of using LO. 
Scientifically the explanations made sense, but weren't practical to use. It
was a long time ago, and I can't find it anywhere. It was marked "solved," but
it really wasn't. 
If the quotes used are curly (single and double), then the first word of the
next sentence isn't capitalised. It's really not a solution to use straight
quotes and then change them after. You can get all kinds of problems if you do
that, including the quotes not pointing the right way, and going through a
100,000 words manually isn't an option. 
I did report it before, but although it was marked solved, it really wasn't.
Nothing changed. It might be "correct," but it's not practicable. Since all
other word processors get around the problem (Word, AWP, Softmaker, etc) there
must be a solution. I'm not the only person to report this one, either.
Doing them all separately doesn't sound like the best idea. This is a project,
not a set of bugs, and they aren't really bugs, apart from the capitalisation
one, they're suggested improvements.
At the moment I use one word processor for writing in (AWP) and LO for editing
and track changes, since AWP doesn't offer that.I do a lecture on word
processors and their uses for authors (doesn't include specialised setups like
Scrivener, except in passing). LO and AWP are my end choices.

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