linux beivrit

[Elazar Leibovich]

And I totally forgot.
It's kind of funny, but in the last OS course of the Open University (which
is of course taught using Linux), the student were forced to use ".doc"
format for their "theoretical" answers!

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> In fact I'm having difficulties to find reviewers for my ".odt" files!
> I'm not aware of any public service provider nor university in Israel which
> accepts open document format in principle.
> But I'll be glad to be proven wrong. (It might be that a specific grader at
> your university accepts documents at ".odt" format, but in general the
> university does not support this format, as opposed to ".doc" format which
> is "officially" supported).
>
> But OpenOffice is capable of saving documents in the propriety ".doc"
> format, which is the de facto standard in Israel. And you can have your work
> reviewed that way.
>
> Another option is to print it to PDF, but it's rather clumsy, because the
> reviewer cannot edit directly your document.
>
> 2010/7/5 Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il>
>
> So you decided to write in docx format and you expect people to review your
>> work?
>> I did not even looked at it because of the format.
>> If you write it in OpenOffice even if it does not look the best, people
>> may help you.
>> The issue of how it looks can be fixed later.
>> You may even work with simple text file to begin and later on transfer it
>> to a good word processor to do the formatting.
>>
>> --
>> Ori Idan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Raz <raziebe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Nadav
>>> When i started i tried to work with open office in Hebrew, but i
>>> simply spent too much time
>>> trying to fix things, indentation, merging pictures and so on.
>>> also, how can ask for people to send me their comments ? I did not see
>>> track changes.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010, Raz wrote about "Re: linux beivrit":
>>> >> > Open office would have been a much better choice (or lyx, or latex
>>> or a few
>>> >> > others)
>>> >> I tried open format. does not look good at all.
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > A lot of things can be said against Open Office (although I personally
>>> > disagree with most of them), but I don't see how you can say its output
>>> > (I assume you don't mean its UI) doesn't look good. What didn't you
>>> like?
>>> > The fonts? The default style or layout? Or what?
>>> >
>>> > In my experience, you can create beautiful documents in Open Office,
>>> and it's
>>> > not harder to do so than with with Microsoft Office, so I wonder whater
>>> > problems you are referring to.
>>> >
>>> > Anyway, it's probably too late now for this document (converting
>>> formats
>>> > is a harder issue), but it's something to think about for your next
>>> > document :-)
>>> >
>>> > --
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>>> >
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