linux beivrit

[Raz]

anyone interested odt format are uploaded to site. odt ,pdf and doc.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>>> > Tammuz 5770
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>>>> >
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