On February 26, 2014 4:58:25 AM PST, James Knott wrote:
>There is a version of OpenOffice for Android now available. That will certainly meet your requirements for working with ODF on a tablet, AndroOffice is suitable only for editing _small_ documents. The major issues are: * Navigation. Navigator does not work; * Size constraints: If the document is larger than about 2 MB in size, the document will not be opened; * Spell-checking: Custom dictionaries can not be installed on stock tablets. (IOW, you have to root the device, in order to add dictionaries.) * Extensions. Allegedly, they can be installed, but I've been extremely unsuccessful in doing so; * Templates: Allegedly, you can install your own, but I've been unsuccessful in doing so; * Database: Forget it. Install SQLiteManager, and learn SQL; All that said, I constructed a couple of spreadsheets to replace apps that I installed. A side-effect is that the spreadsheets can accept more types of data, and spit out more types of data, than the apps do. Two major issues with tablets as desktop/laptop replacements, is that they are neither multi-tasking, nor multi-user. (Prior to getting my tablet, the last non-multi-user, non-multi-tasking platform was when I had an Apple //e.) (Whilst I can install *Nix on the tablet, that requires rooting the system, and replacing the kernel. Something I'm not comfortable doing.) jonathon -- Your language. Your documents. Your way. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
