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   Thomas Koenig to David Brown   
   Re: "Internationalis(z)ing Code - Comput   
   01 Feb 26 09:42:34   
   
   XPost: comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   David Brown  schrieb:   
   > On 30/01/2026 21:28, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   >> I have not yet succeeded in getting LibreOffice to display a decimal   
   >> point with German settings, and when I use US English I get inches   
   >> for paper sizes :-(   
   >>   
   >   
   > Use UK settings, not US settings.  Then at least you get sane paper   
   > sizes and measurement units.   
      
   That is better, thanks!   
      
      
   > LibreOffice has its faults and weaknesses, but it is still far ahead of   
   > MS Office in many aspects.  (Or perhaps "less terrible" is more accurate?)   
      
   I find Impress to be very difficult to work with, compared to   
   PowerPoint.  But the most recent thing that drove me up the wall   
   was Excel's inability to display a bar graph with non-overlapping   
   bars for a primary and secondary axis, so I can display data like   
      
   a	2	0.1   
   b	3	0.3   
   c	5	0.2   
      
   in a sane way.  Libreoffice Calc can actually do this.   
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