On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:28:26PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > 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.
oh, and I forgot to say: since my colleagues won't use it, none of our students will, which means the next generation of office users will all grow up on MS, which means OOo won't institutionalize itself among home users, which means WE WILL NEVER WIN! so I think this is an important project. matt > > 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] > -------------------------- .''`. 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]
