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It was always pretty laggy. It didn’t and still doesn’t scale to any reasonable size document. The last thing I wrote in libreoffice was a technical specificati
by cjk2 3y ago
It was always pretty laggy. It didn’t and still doesn’t scale to any reasonable size document. The last thing I wrote in libreoffice was a technical specification around 200 pages long in 2019. It crashed regularly, wrecked the document and caused me a lot of work. I literally cut and pasted the entire thing into word, applied styles and cleaned it up over two days and had no problems with that. This made me dirty so I learned LaTeX and now use that.
I have colleagues who still use Libreoffice for study and have the same problems.
- doctor_eval 3y agoBy 2019 it was way gone. But in 2004 I reckon it was pretty good and not laggy at all on Linux. Or that’s what I remember.
- vidarh 3y agoI've assembled and done editing passes (back and forth to an editor, using comments heavily) on two 200+ page novels in LibreOffice with none of those problems, so it sounds like something in your doc must have hit some specific edge cases/bugs. Not doubting you - I find it clunky and fully believe there's bugs there too. I did most of my writing in Google Docs, but chapter by chapter both because I find it easier to keep individual chapters separate and because Google Docs certainly can't (or couldn't, anyway) handle anything approaching that size without slowing to a crawl, but it just felt better than LinreOffice for the actual writing.
- cjk2 3y agoMathematics and image embeds killed it.
- oliwarner 3y ago> This made me dirty so I learned LaTeX Yup. Intermediary markup languages are king when you need to decouple editing from presentation. I personally find the extended versions of markdown (and CSS) a lot easier to format but that's what 25 years of HTML does to someone.