<!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, Dotan Cohen wrote:<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<br>
> > to hebrew to match the original permutes tab aligned ellements<br>
><br>
> Are you talking about documents created with Word then opened in OOo,<br>
> or documents created in OOo then opened in Word. With the former I<br>
> understand your point, but for the later I have had no problems (I<br>
> have not tried math).<br>
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> >> > 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<br>
> > of 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>
><br>
> I tried to get into Lyx but I had a hard time with Hebrew, davka (what<br>
> is "davka" in English).<br>
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