“This question is old enough to shave.”

    In 2002, during the time of OpenOffice 1.0, the bug 4914 was opened in the bugtracker - "I need a normal kind of document." The user asks OpenOffice Writer to introduce a new editing mode similar to the "Normal" mode of Microsoft Word, that is: hide the upper and lower margins of the page.



    Thirteen years later, this request has 11 duplicates and 162 comments. Resolution: closed, reopened. For the publication of the decision , a prize of $ 100 was awarded from the FreedomSponsors project.

    The main content of this article is completed. You can now go to FreedomSponsors and throw a few dollars to develop a good feature. If you are still in doubt, then continue.

    Currently, Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice have only two document editing and viewing modes: standard (“Print Layout”) and “Web Page”. In layout mode, the program shows the entire document in full, how it will look after printing; in web page mode, it throws out page numbers and fields, leaving only text. In addition, footnotes in the text of web pages are displayed not at the end of the page, but at the end of the entire document, which can occupy more than one screen.

    Since 2002, OpenOffice managed to change owners twice: first, he got to Oracle, then - to the Apache fund. Borderless editing between pages has already been introduced by Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, QuarkXPress, Adobe PageMaker, Scribus, and Google Docs.

    February 10 this year, the bug was closedas decided by the user Kay, who stated that the current interface fully meets the requirements set. After discussion, the task was rediscovered. The Apache OpenOffice project does not work on a solution. The corresponding problem in the Libreoffice project has been hanging since the discovery of the bugtracker.

    If the Apache and Libreoffice funds still do not listen to their users, then at least users have the means to do the necessary action themselves. The simplest solution that is accessible to all readers is to raise a prize for strong, but not yet busy programmers. The fastest solution for those who know C is to take and write this option. In the end, someone has to do it.

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