Wow, this series of e-mails is depressing. I am a professor at the University of Rochester and use Openoffice daily, so along with Matt Price and Bruce D'Arcus, there are at least a few people interested in using Openoffice in academia. I've been following this issue for some time (I'm the one who suggested the failed attempt to get funding from the NSF CCLI program). Bibliographic support is the ONLY reason I do not use Openoffice exclusively and have my students use it exclusively as well. I otherwise love it. But right now I use Endnote on Linux using Codeweavers Crossover office to add/remove citations to papers I write. I must then us MS Word to do the final formatting of the bibiography before submitting for publication.
I was really hopeful a year or so ago that better bibliographic support would be built in by now. I am disturbed that people seem to be giving up now, but I am not sure what can be done to help. If Sun developers will not be able to work on this, could they provide a reasonable estimate of coding man hours needed based on the specs (and perhaps a cost estimate)? Could the community (me included) try to raise funding that could be ear-marked for this project? If enough money could be set aside, then perhaps the development could move forward. As with many people, I have little free time for this, but it is an important issue for me and I would like to help somehow. -Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
