I guess I am a little late to the party... I am a biochemist. I finished my PhD work a few months ago. I have written and published a couple of scientific papers and although I have almost all my documents in ODF and line diagrams drawn using OOo-Draw, I was forced to use MSO to write my paper mainly because of the lack of Endnote support in OOo. EndNote support is such a dealbreaker for people in our fields that the adoption of iWork Pages was almost nil until they introduced support of EndNote. After all, everyone has these huge Endnote libraries that they accumulated from the day they started doing research. Now I know at least a few people who are using Apple iWork to write their papers because they can use Endnote with it. I am sure if such support is brought to OOo, it will hugely improve the prospects of academic adoption.
Someone mentioned that in Science and Engineering fields people mostly use LaTeX. That is probably true for Math/Physics/Engineering fields but not for Biology and Chemistry. I know a lot of biologists and chemists who have never heard of LaTeX. -- View this message in context: http://the-document-foundation.969070.n3.nabble.com/LibO-roadmap-tp1667731p1719198.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
