Dear Open Office
Thursday, July 7th, 2005 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniDear Open Office:
I'm a writer. When I open a word processing program, I want to process words. I appreciate that I will, at the beginning of my relationship with any new word processor need to invest some time discussing with it how it should behave and what my requirements are. My requirements are, I like to think, modest. They are these:
*That the default page margins be 1.0 inch (ONE INCH) all around. Not 1.25 inches, not .79 inches. ONE INCH. Every page. Of every new document. One inch, all around. Forever and ever, amen.
*That the default font be Arial 12 point. Not Times New Roman. I loathe looking at Times New Roman, if you must know, though I'll admit that it's better than looking at Courier. I can live with Times New Roman, but I don't wanna. I want Arial, on every page of every document, headers, yea, and even unto footers. If, after sober consideration, I want to change the font to something else, I'll do that manually, and gladly.
I realize that these are small things on the Cosmic Scale of Things, but I've just been forced to migrate to a computer I didn't really want to buy by the untimely and unhappy death of a computer that I liked Just Fine, Thanks, and I'm a little testy. And I will remark that it is just these sorts of teensy little unimportant aggravations that make me reach for WordPerfect rather than Open Office.
Bad temperedly yours,
Rolanni
I'm a writer. When I open a word processing program, I want to process words. I appreciate that I will, at the beginning of my relationship with any new word processor need to invest some time discussing with it how it should behave and what my requirements are. My requirements are, I like to think, modest. They are these:
*That the default page margins be 1.0 inch (ONE INCH) all around. Not 1.25 inches, not .79 inches. ONE INCH. Every page. Of every new document. One inch, all around. Forever and ever, amen.
*That the default font be Arial 12 point. Not Times New Roman. I loathe looking at Times New Roman, if you must know, though I'll admit that it's better than looking at Courier. I can live with Times New Roman, but I don't wanna. I want Arial, on every page of every document, headers, yea, and even unto footers. If, after sober consideration, I want to change the font to something else, I'll do that manually, and gladly.
I realize that these are small things on the Cosmic Scale of Things, but I've just been forced to migrate to a computer I didn't really want to buy by the untimely and unhappy death of a computer that I liked Just Fine, Thanks, and I'm a little testy. And I will remark that it is just these sorts of teensy little unimportant aggravations that make me reach for WordPerfect rather than Open Office.
Bad temperedly yours,
Rolanni
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Date: 2005-07-08 10:45 am (UTC)Garamond is very nice. I'm not sure I understand the serif/screen interaction, though. What sort of screen resolution do you normally work at?
If you need sanserif, I find Marigold or Lucida Sans to be easier on my eyes, in the long term, than Arial. Trebuchet MS is pretty good, too, and at least manages to distinguish 'I' from 'l', so that 'Illinois' doesn't look like a rank insignia for sergeants.