Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-19 Thread lj
I'm sorry to bring up the Microsoft topic. But it is improving in Libreoffice, ive used a daily build of LO 3.6 as I am receiving docx files and they are mostly now opening only in LO with correct margining and formatting layouts from MO. All I can say is that LO should not give up on developing

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-18 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2012/5/15 Laurence Jeloudev ljelou...@gmail.com wrote, among other things: I hope Microsoft Office support Libreoffice file formats the odf formats in there next office release, as then it would help more compatibility issues and problems with files and formatting hopefully being fixed. Dream

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-18 Thread Olav Dahlum
2012/5/15 Pieter E. Zanstra pie...@zanstra.eu Like it or not, only one thing matters: Seemless file exchange with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Period! Pieter Simple, just ask Microsoft to publish the specifications for all their file formats … Regards, Olav Dahlum -- Unsubscribe

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-18 Thread Olav Dahlum
I agree that is the worse thing that I do not like about LibreOffice, is that there is no sufficient compatibility with Microsoft Office. An Example are pptx files, that have formatting errors where the text does not fit on the same slide, and runs off the page. so everything has to be

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-16 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-16 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 16/05/2012 08:18, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-16 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/05/2012 08:18, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com  wrote: I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would

RE: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-16 Thread Pieter E. Zanstra
-Original Message- From: Simos Xenitellis [mailto:simos.li...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:48 AM To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Aquilina

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-16 Thread Jussi Silvonen
Hi Marc! 2012/5/15 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a wish-list, but a list

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-16 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Wed, 16 May 2012 10:16:26 +0300 Jussi Silvonen jussi.silvo...@gmail.com wrote: ... The other missing feature is real multimedia support for Impress (adding videos and sound in presentations, don't work now, actually). I used videos and sounds in my LO Impress presentations

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-15 Thread Marc Paré
I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a wish-list, but a list of any extensions/add-ons to LibreOffice that are

RE: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-15 Thread Pieter E. Zanstra
] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a wish-list, but a list of any

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-15 Thread Laurence Jeloudev
@documentfoundation.org Subject: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-15 Thread Sveinn í Felli
Þann þri 15.maí 2012 07:32, skrifaði Marc Paré: I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a wish-list, but a list

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-15 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 15/05/12 09:20, Laurence Jeloudev wrote: I hope Microsoft Office support Libreoffice file formats the odf formats in there next office release, They already support odf formats. (From Office 2007 SP1 if I recall). Unfortunately they do it on their terms such that if you open an ods file

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

2012-05-15 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Bibliography creation as well as source citations are very very important. Regards Jonathan Aquilina On May 15, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Marc Paré wrote: I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider