On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:21:42 +0300 Aharon Schkolnik <aschkol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the response. > Comments in-line. > > On Monday 30 March 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > Just to be clear - what I need is a way to edit MS mixed English and > > > Hebrew word documents which will be read by Windows users. At the monent > > > the only way I can do that is by booting into XP ;-( > > > > If you are creating the documents and others are reading, then there > > are two solutions: > > > > 1) Open Office 3.0 handles MS Office documents <= 2003 in a reasonable > > manner. If you are producing the documents for distribution, then > > expect no problems (but don't be mad at me if there are). Sometime > > receiving documents for MS Office users is not ideal, but creating > > them is fine. > > Boy, I wish this were true. First, I have found that Open Office has a very > difficult time with mixed Hebrew and English. Second, I have found that a > mixed Hebrew/English document created with Open Office will get messed up > when viewed with MS Word. > > Have others had a different experience ? > Very different. Math is a complete no go, hebrew and english is a mess, mixed hebrew/english documents and numbers are rarely imported properly, enumerations are messed up completely and changing the document language to hebrew to match the original permutes tab aligned ellements > > > > 2) Again, use OOo 3.0 but instead of distributing DOC files, > > distribute PDF files. DOC files are not meant for distributing, their > > viewer application is buggy and rarely used (users will likely open > > the documents in an editor, ie, MS Word) and has other problems. > > No, DOC format is a requirement. > > > > > > > > If you need to recieve and colaborate with MS Windows users, you have > > two options: > > > > 1) Buy MS Windows and MS Office and use them. I actually like > > Microsoft's office suit, but I hate their operating systems! > > I have both. I just don't want to have to boot into Windows to be able to do > what I need to do. > > > > > > 2) Convince your collaborators to use Open Office. This is suprisingly > > easy, many people are willing to get rid of MS Office. Although I > > personally prefer MS Office and use OOo out of necessity (Linux user), > > I find that most people prefer OOo for some reason, once they see it. > > Go figure. > Tried using personally but sad to say it's incredibly unstable in terms of styles and I still haven't managed to find out how to change the headers/footers mid way through the document, something that is very easy with word. On the other hand I'm using lyx almost exclusively so who am I to talk ... > Sorry to say, not up to me. > > > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
