My experience has been "You have to use it so we give it to you. Have a nice day".
YMMV J sgrover wrote: > Yep. And OOo allows a conversion to MS Word as well. So there ARE > arguments for the Prof's to use to get their way. How realistic these > are is open to discussion though. Afterall, the formatting may not be > right after a conversion to MS Word, and a student might actually have a > life (aka kids, work, other responsibilities.) that prevent them from > getting into the school to use their equipment. > > The argument can go in many directions.. :) > > Shawn > > Jon wrote: >> Schools get around the 'I don't have Office' by supplying computer labs >> chock full of Office. >> >> Sucky, but true. >> >> J >> >> --- >> Sent from the road... >> -----Original Message----- >> From: sgrover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thursday, Jun 28, 2007 5:35 pm >> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Word Documents >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], CLUG General <[email protected]>Reply-To: CLUG >> General <[email protected]> >> >> Thanks for the plug Mitchell. :) >> >> Jesse: I just re-read what I wrote again, and think the last couple of >> paragraphs, and the one near the beginning starting with "A few years >> back, the state of Massachusetts..." might be applicable to your goal. >> >> That article wasn't really written with the same goal you have, so >> covers other topics than what you need. But Massachusetts reasons for >> moving from the proprietary format are bang on. And the issue of who >> controls your data - you, or the vendor of the file format. >> >> One would think that a simple argument of "I do not OWN MS Word, so >> cannot comply with your request to use the Word file format. However, I >> can produce and ODF based file, or a PDF." should do the trick. >> Afterall, how can a professor "demand" what you do with your computer >> system. >> >> I just did a google search for "reasons not to use ms word", but that >> wasn't very helpful... So let us know what you find. >> >> Shawn >> >> Jesse Kline wrote: >>> Not sure entirely how relevant this is, but try: >>> >>> http://grover.open2space.com/node/154 >> >> That's an interesting article. Nice work Shawn! However, my issue is that >> I've had a couple professors that require submissions in Word documents. >> This pisses me off because it is a proprietary format and because I don't >> use MS Office, so there's no guarantee that my formatting will convert >> correctly. This can be fairly critical when I'm required to submit a paper >> of a certain length and in a certain style. I'm looking for some good >> articles to throw at them in the hopes of changing this policy. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Jesse >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- Key fingerprint: BDE0 DE52 B8C0 0CDF 7653 E5A2 D861 7877 0D3B 813E http://www.jonwatson.ca +1.403.875.6048 "Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or under MacOS is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast" - ESR _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
