On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 16:09 -0600, James Stroud wrote: > With that said, if you want to work behind a full-featured word > processor and have access to the wonders of TeX typesetting, > LibreOffice (OpenOffice) + TexMaths is the best for the author during > preparation of a manuscript. At this point it is bug free (to my > experience), embeds vector equations (SVG) or raster (PNG), is > editable, and looks spectacular both when editing and when > publishing/printing.
... as long as you don't use docx files: there are a lot of reported docx-related problems (bugs and regressions) with LibreOffice. This URL will show 500 of them: <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=docx> There are many more docx-related issues on this bug tracker which have been marked as fixed so a simple search like the above won't reveal them, however they may not be fixed in the version of LibreOffice that you happen to be using. > The downside is that you have to collaborate with people you can’t > force into using the best software. This brings us back to the original question, in which collaboration was a factor. If you are able to use odt format for the containing document, LibreOffice is fine and James' suggestion is a good one. It is probably OK with doc format too, for most purposes. However, if you are collaborating with people who are not able or willing to avoid the use of docx format, using LibreOffice can be risky. Regards, Peter. -- Peter Keller Tel.: +44 (0)1223 353033 Global Phasing Ltd., Fax.: +44 (0)1223 366889 Sheraton House, Castle Park, Cambridge CB3 0AX United Kingdom
