Writing with Style
Writing with Style
An Interview with the author of Designing with LibreOffice.
Bruce Byfield has been the writer of the Command Line column for Linux Pro Magazine (LPM) since mid 2009. In addition to his "Off the Beat" blog he writes for us at the LPM website [1], he keeps a personal "Off the Wall" blog [2], where he addresses art, specifically Pacific Northwest art and First Nations artists, writing, feminism, and life in general.
Bruce recently published Designing with LibreOffice, a book in which he guides the reader through the style, template, typography, and design tools available in LibreOffice to create precise and visually comprehensible documents. He says, "By taking advantage of styles and templates, you can concentrate on self-expression, rather than format" [3].
LibreOffice [4] is a popular free office suite that includes word processing, spreadsheet, multimedia, drawing, database, and math editing applications. This set of programs is so feature rich, that most users take advantage of a very small subset of its capabilities.
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