XPost: comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.c++
From: david.brown@hesbynett.no

On 01/02/2026 10:42, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> 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!

I fully understand why many people from non-English-speaking countries
sometimes find it best to have an English locale or language settings on
their systems.  But I have never understood why they pick US English for
the purpose.  Despite the Brexit madness, UK standards are far closer to
European norms than the US standards are.  And for many purposes, those
norms are nearly global - the US is the only one that is different.
(Although for dates, China and Japan and a few other countries use YMD
ordering daily, while most of the world only uses it for more technical
documents.)

>
>> 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.

 From my limited experience in that area, I agree - PowerPoint is the
one part of MS Office that is a lot better than LibreOffice.

>  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.

Another difference I have seen is in graphs with some missing data.
Excel fills in the gaps with 0, while LibreOffice draws the graphs with
appropriate gaps.

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