On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > 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 > > Are you talking about documents created with Word then opened in OOo, > or documents created in OOo then opened in Word. With the former I > understand your point, but for the later I have had no problems (I > have not tried math).
I had a real mess once when I took a mixed Hebrew/English document created with Word and then opened it with OOo. I then fixed it up under OOo, but when I looked at it under Word it was a mess over there ! > > >> > 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 > > ... > > I tried to get into Lyx but I had a hard time with Hebrew, davka (what > is "davka" in English). -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is | aschkol...@gmail.com impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 | 054 3344135
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