On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 13:19 Asia/Jerusalem, Jonathan Ben Avraham > wrote: > > > My kids > > (all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments > > in > > doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife > > is in a masters program at Touro College and Beit Morasha where the > > homework assignments are distributed in Word and the homework must be > > submitted in Word. I suggest that you actually go try to talk to these > > people about Linux and see what happens. > > > > This is one thing that I never understood- word can read a wide variety > of Hebrew document formats, so why insist on the files being submitted > as doc?
Hi Shoshannah, The reason is that the teacher wants all the kids in the class to submit material in the same format. The teacher does not have time or patience to convert document formats for even two out of thirty-five kids in the class. - yba > > I admit to a few cases where I "cheated" and sent documents as RTF. In > many cases, the recipient had no idea about the difference (as rtf > files where associated with word as well). > > -- > The News, Uncensored http://www.tellinglies.org/news/ > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7 49 A6 82 29 BA ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
