On 04/02/2008 08:55 AM, NoOp wrote:

> You might ask your school to re-evaluate the requirement to use
> proprietary software simply to format your writing assignments. By doing
> so, they are also dictating which computer and operating system the
> student must use.[1]
> 
> Free templates for APA are available here:
> http://www.cc.mie-u.ac.jp/~lq20106/eg5000/templates/
> 
> Also please have a look at:
> <http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template_2_x/writer/index.html>
> Thesis.ott
> and
> Thesis_Additions.zip
> both by Matthias Ansorg
> An APA template is there as well:
> APA Research Term Paper[ott]          Research Term paper Template that uses
> the APA Format Guidelines.
> 
> You, and your school, may also find these helpful:
> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
> http://apastyle.apa.org/

My apologies; I neglected to include the reference link for the PERRLA
response:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.questions/178629
> 
> [1] An OOo (and MAC) user received this response from APA Perrla:
> <quote>
>> From: PERRLA Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: 2 apr. 2008 15:34
>> Subject: Customer Comment - Reply
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 
>> Hello T.
>> 
>> APA PERRLA is very intricate and required a great deal of very specific
>> programming. Neither WordPerfect nor the Mac profile nor OpenOffice.org can
>> use the same programming, so each aspect of APA PERRLA would have had to
>> been written specifically for those other platforms.
>> 
>> When we began developing it, we simply looked at the numbers. The fact of
>> the matter is that the majority of folks, by far, who write in the APA
>> format are Word for Windows users. This isn't to denigrate any other
>> platform, it's just a fact. We couldn't be all things to all people, so we
>> decided to do one thing very well. Someday we hope to have a product for the
>> other platforms but not in the near future.
>> 
>> Have a good day,
>> Liz
> </quote>
> 

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