On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:18 PM, j.martin.pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > LibreOffice is an exciting development! > > As a Free Software user and advocate who spends time in academia this is > a crucial aspect of getting anyone to use LO: > >> As Writer developer I would be really interested in improving that... >> though I have no idea of the requirements behing bibliographic works. >> Would you be able to get some people helping to describe what needs to >> be done? If you can find some other developers interested in hacking >> that part, I'm ready to help them getting started! > > Whenever you suggest OOo or now LO to academics and students, they ask: > "What about my Endnotes?" > > Until there is an integrated GUI that somewhat looks and feels like - > and of course is 100% compatible with - Endnotes, social science and > humanities academics will never migrate. They are locked in. With a > great bibliographic component in LO, they could be unlocked. > > Looking forward to seeing what will happen, >
Just to add here that a new program for handling bibliographies is Mendeley, http://www.mendeley.com/ which has packages for both 32-bit and 64-bit of Linux. It can communicate with OOo, though I did not try this. Simos -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
