On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 00:13 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > Rick Bilonick wrote: > > ... > > Unfortunately they would all choose to use MS Word so I'm not keen on > > suggesting it. ... > > Hey, I sympathize. Make your case for everyone using OOo; ask them to > pitch in and buy you MS Office if that's what they want to use, or a > better computer so you can run Windows virtually ;-) Maybe you can work > out a system where, rather than round-tripping the entire document, they > only send you additions and changes (as .doc) and you handle the editing > of the master document (as .odt). > That's what I'm doing - they send me the .doc parts and I usually send a pdf back.
> At least they'll be aware of OOo and be exposed to something other than > Office. > > > ... I don't understand how OOo chooses which font to use for Greek > > letters. > > And I feel safe to predict that that won't be the last little mystery > you'll be trying to solve if you persist in trying to use different tools. > > I understand how important it is for OOo to market itself as "compatible > with Office" but the reality is that it is not and never will be > perfectly compatible. Whether it is "compatible enough" has to be > answered for each project/document, and very often the answer is "no". I > wonder if it is a mistake in the long run to encourage people to think > of OOo as "Office compatible" only to be embarassed and disappointed > when things don't work out. > > > Also, I > > don't understand why I can type in certain font names like Times New > > Roman and Symbol even though these font names do not show up in the pull > > down font list. > > OOo doesn't care if you manually specify a font that isn't present: it > just records that string in the style definition and displays a > substitute font, hopefully something close. If the document then goes to > a system that has the specified font, great. > > You can specify what fonts are substituted (although it only seems to > work for fonts that are present--weird). Of course, you can easily > install those fonts on Linux too. > > <Joe When I specify "Symbol", the actual symbol displayed looks different from both OpenSymbols and Standard Symbol L. When I do this, the symbols show up OK in MS Word. If I use OpenSymbols or Standard Symbol L then they don't show up in text. Rick B. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
