This is the single factor which makes it impossible for me to evangelize OOo on campus. Unti OOo can take an endnote DB and use it to manage citations, none of my colleagues will use it. And most won't switch until OOo can use its bibliograhy to create humanities-style (e.g. Chicago Manual of Style) citations.
Matt On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:48:41AM -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Bruce Winterhalder wrote: > > >I will add that there are many academics who would be eager to switch > >to Linux/Open Office as their working environment, except that they > >are utterly, often hourly, dependent on a bibliographic database > >program like Endnote or Biblioscape.� > > Show of hands: > > How many people on this list find the existing functionality adequate > enough to use, even if it's not ideal? > > My contention is that the current support isn't even really adequate > for undergraduate students, much less professional scholars and > researchers. I'm just wondering how widely that view is held. > > In my case, though I'm co-project lead for this project, I don't use > OOo for authoring. > > Bruce > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -------------------------- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
