Hi Marc! 2012/5/15 Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com>
> 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? > > Thanks for any input. > > Marc > > I am a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, and have used OOo/LibO for years. I think LibO is good enough for basic writing and presentations. Extension I have found useful: - alternative search, compose special characters, linguist, convert text to number, notes anchor. Support for many languages (Finnish + English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish) is essential for researcher's in any small language area. I can do almost everything I need with LibO. There are, however, two big missing features I would favor. The first missing feature is the management of bibliographic information (references, citations). In the past – as a Windows user – I used to create my list of references by using EndNote. It's a great tool for a social scientist. We really need something like it. The other missing feature is real multimedia support for Impress (adding videos and sound in presentations, don't work now, actually). There are only few templates for academic use, for thesis, papers for review in journals etc.To create a proper file for their final version of their theses is a nightmare for most students using Word. A nice template for this would be appreciated very much. best regards JusSi -- 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
