On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 18:00:31 PM +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > Keep using LibreOffice? That way you are not exactly breaking their > ruling just bending it a bit. > > If you get a file that is clearly a bit messed up, from a tutor, ask > them which version of MSO they are using because your version > doesn't seem to read it properly (omitting to say your version is > not actually MSO). Ask them to File - "Save As ..." > ... > If the file was from a student then do about the same...
nothing personal, of course, but this whole line of thought and suggestions seems more and more pointless as the thread continues. This would be evident to anybody who had taken the time to check the tutoring FAQ as I did yesterday and/or to search online for "tutor.com classroom software" as I did now, thus finding, among others, this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1485597 and this technical description http://www.russellgreenspan.com/software/The_Tutor.com_Classroom.pdf which both confirm my initial hypothesis, that there must be little or nothing "Save as" in "independent" office suites in that scenario, because a tutor.com classroom is something that totally happens inside THEIR software, which relies on 30 pages of Microsoft-specific technologies to integrate everything tightly. My own feeling (since yesterday, and the other links I found today confirm it) is that the support for this or that file format, or macros, in and by itself counts almost nothing, as in "you may very well do or create homework in OpenOffice, as long as you eventually copy and paste everything in MS Office, because that is the ONLY way to pass it back and forth student and tutor that can be handled (=monitored for quality control and billing) by the "Tutor.com classroom software". Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- 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
