why it's hard to recommend OpenOffice

[tamaranth]

Compare selection count and whole document (*only* document) count...


EDIT TO ADD: about those weird comments ... this is how they show up on the laptop.

Comments

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

Oops!

I can't help but wonder if someone put the captions the wrong way round in the dialog box.

Still, you get what you pay for!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

ｉｆ　Ｉ　ｐａｓｔｅ　ｉｔ　ｉｎｔｏ　ａ　ｎｅｗ　ｄｏｃｕｍｅｎｔ，　ｉｔ　ｃｏｍｅｓ　ｕｐ　ｗｉｔｈ　ｓｅｌｅｃｔｉｏｎ　０，　ｄｏｃｕｍｅｎｔ　４９３，　ｓｏ　ｉｓ　ｎｏｔ　ｗｒｏｎｇ　ｃａｐｔｉｏｎｓ．　Ｊｕｓｔ　Ｂａｄｎｅｓｓ！

Ｉ　ｈｅａｒ　ｙｏｕ　ｒｅ　’ｇｅｔ　ｗｈａｔ　ｙｏｕ　ｐａｙ　ｆｏｒ’　ｂｕｔ　ｔｈｉｓ　ｉｓ　ｔｏｕｔｅｄ　ａｓ　ａ　ｓｅｒｉｏｕｓ　ｃｏｍｐｅｔｉｔｏｒ　ｔｏ　ＭＳ Ｏｆｆｉｃｅ．　Ｉｔ’ｓ　ｗｈａｔ　ｗｅ　ｕｓｅｄ　ａｓ　ａ　ｍａｔｔｅｒ　ｏｆ　ｐｒｉｎｃｉｐｌｅ　ａｔ　ＥｘＪｏｂ．　Ａｎｄ　ｉｔ　ｍｅａｎｓ　Ｉ　ａｍ　ｓｔｉｌｌ　ｌｏｏｋｉｎｇ　ｆｏｒ　ａ　ｄｅｃｅｎｔ　Ｌｉｎｕｘ　ｔｅｘｔ　ｅｄｉｔｉｎｇ　ａｐｐ　．．．

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

ｗｈａｔ　ｉｓ　ｈａｐｐｅｎｉｎｇ　ｔｏ　ｍｙ　ｃｏｍｍｅｎｔ　ｔｅｘｔ？ Ｄｏｅｓ　ｉｔ　ｌｏｏｋ　ｅｖｉｌｌｙ　ｍｏｎｏｓｐａｃｅｄ　ｔｏ　ａｎｙｏｎｅ　ｅｌｓｅ？

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

That's weird, your comments are coming up in a completely different font to everything else!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

＊ＩＺ ＳＰＥＳＨＵＬ＊


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[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

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[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

Weirder still is in the email notification your comment comes out as complete gibberish!
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and so on... LJ is being strange again!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Ｉ　ｄｏｎ’ｔ　ｔｈｉｎｋ　ｉｔ’ｓ　ＬＪ，　Ｉ　ｔｈｉｎｋ　ｉｔ’ｓ　ｃｏｍｂｉｎａｔｉｏｎ　ｏｆ　Ｌｉｎｕｘ，　ＥＥＥＥＥＥ　ａｎｄ　ｔｈｉｓ　ｍａｃｈｉｎｅ　ｎｏｔ　ｋｎｏｗｉｎｇ　ｍｙ　ＬＪ ｐｒｅｆｓ．

Ｔｈｏｕｇｈ　ｉｔ　ｉｓ　ｐｏｓｓｉｂｌｅ　Ｉ　ａｍ　ｊｕｓｔ　ｖｅｒｙ　ｖｅｒｙ　ｓＰｅＣｉＡｌ．

[lproven.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's posting Unicode when plain ASCII would be more appropriate. No clue as to why or what to do about it, though...

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

You know, I read that as 'evilly moonspaced'. Which, to me, makes more sense.

[lj_stowaway]

Oh, lovely. And here I was considering DLing OpenOffice. Pah. You get what you pay for indeed.

And yes, your comment text looks weird. Good luck sorting out whatever's wrong!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

it does usually work much better than that! Cannot help but wonder if it is some weirdness of my EEEEE.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Is that the same OpenOffice you were recommending to me yesterday?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

it's meant to work better than that!

To be honest, I do wonder if some of it is EEEEE-ness. See comments above (and if you could see what I, back on normal laptop, am seeing, you would appreciate that something is Wrong ...)

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

I've posted to LJ from my EEEEEE and not had any problems. I'm not sure if I commented from it at any time though, I might have but I can't be sure.
I think LJ just updated their rich text editor and so it could be a problem with that and the version of firefox on the EEE, or something.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

OpenOffice isn't bad. I don't use it very much but it's handy having it on the machine for occasional use. (It opens some formats MSWord has difficulty with.) It's a bit slow and a bit clunky . . . but then so is MSWord!

Me, I hang out for WP5.1 for DOS!

[soulstar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I'd just been thinking about d/l-ing Open Office to see if it works any better for me than MS Office 97. Maybe I'll still try it though.