>-----Original Message----- >From: Simos Xenitellis [mailto:simos.li...@googlemail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:48 AM >To: discuss@documentfoundation.org >Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- >College/University > >On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Aquilina ><eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 16/05/2012 08:18, Simos Xenitellis wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc >Paré<m...@marcpare.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an >>>> academic environment. What would some of you, who are using >>>> LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an >academic setting. >>>> >>>> I am not looking for a "wish-list", but a list of any >>>> extensions/add-ons to LibreOffice that are available right now. Is >>>> LibreOffice sufficient as is, or do any of you have any >suggestions >>>> of add-ons that are really needed for such a setting as a >>>> college/university/academic environment? >>>> >>> I think that LibreOffice, and specifically LibreOffice Writer, is >>> quite good in writing essays. >>> You can use page and paragraph styles in order to create a >structured >>> document. >>> The documentation has more information about this, or see >>> http://simos.info/blog/archives/651 >>> Actually this is very important, because the proper use of >styles can >>> help you manage big documents. >>> >>> You can use math equations as in >>> http://www.libreoffice.org/features/math/ so no third-party tool is >>> required. >>> >>> You can manage your bibliography with Zotero (Firefox >Add-on), which >>> has a feature to export to LibreOffice. >>> >>> Simos >>> >> Simos what about citation of sources and bibliographies, as well as >> appendices for lets say a thesis? >> > >You can cite your bibliography in the document using 'Insert?citation". > >There are more bibliography tools, if you are interested to >test them out, JabRef, http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ >Mendeley, http://www.mendeley.com/ (+document management, >closed source). > >Regarding appendices, see >http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg14422.html > >I wonder if there is a document on the LibreOffice Wiki about >all these. >That is, a document that explains how to use LibreOffice >Writer for academic work. > >Simos
Indeed such a page or rather a chapter about usage of LIBO from the perspective of a young starting academic would be a very good thing to have. Maybe with the help of some fore runner academia? Might also be interesting idea for other professional areas. Pieter -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
