On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:40:05 +0200 Boaz Rymland <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > 2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland <[email protected]> > > > >> > >> of course the whole reason to this thread and me contacting the principal > >> is the fsck'ed up document. The document appears badly in LibreOffice > >> and Google docs (imported). I verified this since sept. 1st till now, on a > >> weekly basis. Yes, OO does read the document and sort of presents the data > >> within, including ok hebrew but I don't want and deserve to do guess work > >> or work harder to try to read a basic document I need to get. I want it to > >> be perfectly accessible to me, at least it is for M$ Office users. > >> > > > > How about suggesting that such docs should be exported into HTML (which > > Word is capable of doing, IIRC) before emailing? It would be nice if the > > creator could look at the HTML in a browser to verify that it looks OK. of > > course, the browser is likely to be IE 32-bit... > > > > I think that's not the best solution. I'd rather have the teacher spread > documents as either links to google docs documents, ODT documents, or PDF, > exported from those documents. I tend to think that the order described > above is the desired order of preference, at least to my taste and line of > thought. Google docs is the easiest and is portable anytime when google > will change something on their side. ODT is more cumbersome (requires > installation of OO on the systems used by the teachers) but is truly open > format, lasting solution. I believe recent versions of Microsoft Office support ODT (I don't know how perfectly). At least I saw it in their file formats' drop box. If not there are some free-as-in-beer plugins available for MS Office to support the OpenDocument formats. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead" - http://shlom.in/st-wtld Logic sucks. Morality sucks. Reality sucks. Deal with it! Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
