Notice that now calls the document by its title instead of “Untitled1” in the title bar. Why? Because we can do fancy stuff with this information later. Let’s call it “Text formatting with Writer” 🙂 We click “File” – “Properties” – “Description”. No, this time we’re not going to do it this way.įirst of all, we want to give our document a title. So how do we start? Hmm… we open Writer and type… STOP. Well, surprise, it’s 2004, it does not have to be this way 🙂 I hated having to look through my entire document when I changed something, just because everything after my change could be formatted badly again.I hated editing all the headings, losing track if they were 12 or 13 points, bold, underlined or whatever.I hated adding a table of content after I was done with my text, hand-editing all the page numbers into it.I was struggling throughout my academical career with the same issues over and over: for all the small documents, up to, let’s say 20 pages or so. This article is to a great extent based on what Christoph wrote in his emails to me.īasically, whenever I wrote something with a text processor in the last decade, I just fired it up, wrote the title, selected the title with the mouse, made it 16 points large and bold, hit enter 2 times, set the text to 12 points and normal weight and started off. This is not really osnews-typical stuff, but I think that there are some people here who can benefit greatly from this article, just as I did.
So I decided to write an article about text formatting. Now that I am done with my diploma, I feel that all this knowledge should not go to waste. 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. Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article.
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