LJelly, I don't think this is the right list, but then I'm not sure what list you should post on either :-) Are you asking a technical/development question, are you proposing a set of (future) patches? If yes, I think you should post on our development mailing list. If you're outlining ideas, perhaps you could edit our wiki?
best, Charles. Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 10:03 +1000, lj a écrit : > If this is is in the wrong place please notify immediately of where I can > post this in the right spot! > > Libreoffice, Academics, Developers. > Referencing Systems and making a bibliography: > Discussion Post on Referencing Systems: > Contributing Email = Long Email Post a lot of information to discuss: It > took a long time to think of questions and statements that are helpful. > I am a high school student that uses LO. I have never had the need to use > the LO OO referencing system extensively in assessments or work since I > started using OpenOffice in 2007 on Ubuntu, and recently LO until I tried > to use it today just to explore its features and to have a better > understanding of referencing systems on LO and Word. It has never occurred > to me to use the bibliographic database system in LO, because i always > found the database integration complex. I am familiar with the Libreoffice > Openoffice application environments. > > > I have a few questions to ask about bibliographic referencing in > Libreoffice: (some of these questions and statements are obvious and easy > to answer others may not be relevant. > Please reply with reasons and answers for disscussion about the referencing > system: > > Opinionated Statements from my perspective: (these do not have to be > answered, as its my opinion.) > 1. The bibliographic referencing system is complex and difficult to use by > default. I found it time consuming to insert citations and a bibliography. > 2. little documentation has been made about the bibliographic referencing > system in LO. I read the help documentation and wiki online, and have > viewed a youtube video about bibliography referencing in Libreoffice, it is > vastly minimal but then is complex to use the referencing system and to > follow the direct steps! > 3. compatability does not work between Microsoft Office and Libreoffice > with the usage of both referencing systems from either word or libreoffice, > features are excluded or do not work. (I can ellaborate on these if needed > to be posted) > 4. Recent versions of Microsoft Office since 2007 have tried to create > uncomplex versions of referencing and bibliographic citations. These > systems work, but are still limited. > 5. LO should create a new referencing system. > > Questions about referencing in LO: Not in any order. > > 1. Does the referencing system in LO take up a lot of space. example: if i > removed the bibliographic database and bibliographic referencing systems > in libreoffice would it be smaller as an install and download? > 2. Why do Academics and Students use bibliographic systems to reference > there work? > 3. What is the easiest common method to insert a bibliography in LO? > 4. Why do LO and Microsoft Word use different referencing systems? How can > they be more compatible? > 5. Do referencing systems in both LO or Word need to be improved? > 6. Why is it complex to insert a citation and bibliography? > 7. Do you agree with my statements why or why not? > 8. out of curiosity: how was referencing done in Microsoft Office 2002 2003 > and earlier versions? does any one know? (brief explanation) > > These Questions and Statements is to enable discussion on referencing in LO > on all platforms and Microsft Word for mac and windows. > > ljelly. > -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- 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
