I was asked to look into Libre Office as an alternative to M$ Office. I have looked at writer.
- Hyphenation seems better in Libre Office than word.
- Libre Office is extremely difficult when you want to use Points rather than inches. For vertical spacing, points is easier to work with then inches. Line spacing, spacing before and after paragraphs need a point mechanism. If it exists, it is not apparent.
- The formatting of list styles is not intuitive. You would think selecting a number style from the list would display number styles to the right. It took a while to figure out that you have to right click.
- For legal work, top level headings are not numbered. I see no way to do that.
- The import of numbering from word to Libre Office was not very good.
- There appears to be no opentype support.
- I see places where the text (i.e. entire single letters) goes outside the right margin.
- Text justification, like word’s, is not so good. Lot’s of rivers in the text.
- It is not apparent how you would set shortcut keys for styles.