On Friday 04 January 2008 12:50:24 Ben wrote: > 2008/1/4, Reinier Battenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > Yes, if people get creative with formatting, you might have issues. But > > mostly > > i keep the formatting for last anyways. And only distribute final > > documents > > in .pdf. (Where was that option in M$ Word again?) > > > :-) > however that is not a big deal : the wonderful PDFCreator is your friend, > and it works for all application as a PDF printer device > > Tracking changes between Word and OO is not very compatible to me ... > for instance comments are not shown ....
I am sure i have used that functionality to exchange changes. I dont know how it looks on the other end, but i did get feedback. > > > And if you really have problems, we persuade the partner to switch, too. It > > makes them happy, once they did. > > > > well ... I can easily imagine the face of my co workers who are using Word > to edit scientific newspapers, and have tons of bibliographic references, > when I will tell them : why don't you switch to OO ? Academics should use FOSS in the first place, burning tax-money to fund the american economy is not a good economic model. But the move might be challenging. (but hey, we have to move one day, really, you just have to pick a date. Unless you really think that M$ will rule the world 10 years from now, and you are willing to contribute to that.) > I would wish a much more easier switch but it is not for the moment unless > you spend time (and therefore money?) to do it ... > When you are working with "normal" people I found it very hard to convince > them to switch to OO... Why? For what? > > let's be serious and use a real word processing tool : LaTeX :-) > Notepad++ rules, sebbo! Totally agree. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
