<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Micha Feigin wrote:<br>
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:21:42 +0300<br>
><br>
> Aharon Schkolnik <aschkolnik@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
> > Thanks for the response.<br>
> > Comments in-line.<br>
> ><br>
> > On Monday 30 March 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:<br>
> > > > Just to be clear - what I need is a way to edit MS mixed English and<br>
> > > > Hebrew word documents which will be read by Windows users. At the<br>
> > > > monent the only way I can do that is by booting into XP ;-(<br>
> > ><br>
> > > If you are creating the documents and others are reading, then there<br>
> > > are two solutions:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > 1) Open Office 3.0 handles MS Office documents <= 2003 in a reasonable<br>
> > > manner. If you are producing the documents for distribution, then<br>
> > > expect no problems (but don't be mad at me if there are). Sometime<br>
> > > receiving documents for MS Office users is not ideal, but creating<br>
> > > them is fine.<br>
> ><br>
> > Boy, I wish this were true. First, I have found that Open Office has a<br>
> > very difficult time with mixed Hebrew and English. Second, I have found<br>
> > that a mixed Hebrew/English document created with Open Office will get<br>
> > messed up when viewed with MS Word.<br>
> ><br>
> > Have others had a different experience ?<br>
><br>
> Very different. Math is a complete no go, hebrew and english is a mess,<br>
> mixed hebrew/english documents and numbers are rarely imported properly,<br>
> enumerations are messed up completely and changing the document language to<br>
> hebrew to match the original permutes tab aligned ellements<br>
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> > > 2) Again, use OOo 3.0 but instead of distributing DOC files,<br>
> > > distribute PDF files. DOC files are not meant for distributing, their<br>
> > > viewer application is buggy and rarely used (users will likely open<br>
> > > the documents in an editor, ie, MS Word) and has other problems.<br>
> ><br>
> > No, DOC format is a requirement.<br>
> ><br>
> > > If you need to recieve and colaborate with MS Windows users, you have<br>
> > > two options:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > 1) Buy MS Windows and MS Office and use them. I actually like<br>
> > > Microsoft's office suit, but I hate their operating systems!<br>
> ><br>
> > I have both. I just don't want to have to boot into Windows to be able to<br>
> > do what I need to do.<br>
> ><br>
> > > 2) Convince your collaborators to use Open Office. This is suprisingly<br>
> > > easy, many people are willing to get rid of MS Office. Although I<br>
> > > personally prefer MS Office and use OOo out of necessity (Linux user),<br>
> > > I find that most people prefer OOo for some reason, once they see it.<br>
> > > Go figure.<br>
><br>
> Tried using personally but sad to say it's incredibly unstable in terms of<br>
> styles and I still haven't managed to find out how to change the<br>
> headers/footers mid way through the document, something that is very easy<br>
> with word.<br>
><br>
> On the other hand I'm using lyx almost exclusively so who am I to talk ...<br>
><br>
> > Sorry to say, not up to me.<br>
><br>
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and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | <br>
is great, and the Master of the house is | aschkolnik@gmail.com<br>
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