I have worked with text processors since 1995 now and even though I have never been interested in the features of Microsoft Word and Writer, I thought that I, at least, knew something about them. A few days and emails later, my diploma was a lot easier to work with. I emailed back, asking some innocent questions and basically got overwhelmed by his long and detailed responses. O.K., it probably wasn’t THAT difficult because I just used no automatic formatting at all, still I just couldn’t believe that he could tell all that with nothing more than a simple screenshot. He specified various mistakes and, to my amazement, he was right on every single issue he mentioned. I am a moron, I admit it… So, the funny thing was, when that article went live, I got an email from a crazy german who told me that I was not formatting my diploma correctly. So, just because I wanted to show off a little, I loaded my diploma thesis, which was then already 130 pages long and took the screenie. I merely wanted to show that in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. If this is not the answer you expect, please, edit again your question to clarify or comment on my answer.Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article. You must understand the difference between text editors and document processors to choose the right tool for your task and your need. LO Writer is an entry-level desktop publishing (DTP) tool, very powerful document processor. Text editors are used to enter program source or to take notes where typographic formatting does not matter. Wrapping text to the window size is a common feature of text editors, usually under user control. Usually, automatic scrolling occurs to follow the cursor. If it is smaller, the view is clipped to the window size and scrolling bars appear on the bottom and right edges of the window to allow you to navigate to the point of your interest. If it is larger than the page, you have the full view in the window. Writer wraps the text within the page limits. Text is supposed to be set in a “page” with a fixed well-defined size, like A4 or Letter). Is it related to “standard” text? Do you mean you expect text to be only as wide as the current window size? This is not the goal of a document processor. I still don’t understand what you mean byĪLL FILES CREATED BY LIBRE OFFICE WRITER DOES NOT WRAP TO WINDOW… The wrap option is an attribute of the object: text may flow across it, around it, only on one side or none at all (the object has the a margin has wide as the page). The menu is enabled if such an object is selected first. The options you see in Format> Wrap are instructions for LO Writer as to how text will be set around (or across) object inserted in the middle of the text, like pictures, frames, drawings. Libre office does not do this very fundamental feature…if I open writer…and shrink the window for half the screen size so I could have another screen open…I wont be able to see all of my text…because it is not word wrapping… What…?.you mean you dont know the meaning of wrap text to window…?.I am surprised you dont know what wrap text to window means…there are 3 options for windows…minimize window…maximize window…or windowed…this option or feature allows you to change the size of the screen variably…for example if you open any program lets say notepad or wordpad…a window pops up…you can either stretch the window to any size on the screen…by clicking on the corner of the window to stretch it…and as you type…the text automatically fits into the size window that you created…if you stretch out the window…or make the window smaller…the text displayed within the window automatically adjusts the visible text to fit into the window size you created…without having to full screen your window…just about all editing programs do this…it is a basic fundamental feature…if there is no word wrap…then you will not be able to see the whole sentence you typed because the rest of the text is hidden behind the window…you would have to use the scroll bar to see the rest of your text…the only way to see the whole sentence is for you to stretch the window out to full screen…in order to see all the text on the whole page…
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