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gmw · 09-20-2013, 09:08 PM

I write prose in Times New Roman using LibreOffice and before that OpenOffice.

Why TNR? Mostly it's just years of familiarity. I prefer my prose in a proportional serif font, I find it easier to read. I'd soon get used to others, but TNR has "always" been there, and it's available for anything thanks to an oversight by Microsoft in their Core Fonts project. These days I use 12pt TNR, back when my eyes were better I'd use 11pt or even 10pt (not that size matters much these days with easy zooming).

Why LO? Because LibreOffice seemed to be being better maintained that OpenOffice when I was looking to upgrade, but either would do the job for me. I make great use of their style features and haven't found anything else that would easily replace them. I moved to OpenOffice several years ago, I had never been very happy with MS-Office (I like software that does what it says on the tin, I don't like software that feels it has to take over your entire system and get in the way of every little thing you want to do), not that I'd used MSOffice for long, I was a WordPerfect fan before that.

09-20-2013, 09:08 PM	#9
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	I write prose in Times New Roman using LibreOffice and before that OpenOffice. Why TNR? Mostly it's just years of familiarity. I prefer my prose in a proportional serif font, I find it easier to read. I'd soon get used to others, but TNR has "always" been there, and it's available for anything thanks to an oversight by Microsoft in their Core Fonts project. These days I use 12pt TNR, back when my eyes were better I'd use 11pt or even 10pt (not that size matters much these days with easy zooming). Why LO? Because LibreOffice seemed to be being better maintained that OpenOffice when I was looking to upgrade, but either would do the job for me. I make great use of their style features and haven't found anything else that would easily replace them. I moved to OpenOffice several years ago, I had never been very happy with MS-Office (I like software that does what it says on the tin, I don't like software that feels it has to take over your entire system and get in the way of every little thing you want to do), not that I'd used MSOffice for long, I was a WordPerfect fan before that.