linux beivrit

[Micha]

On 05/07/2010 18:18, Elazar Leibovich 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.
>

First of all, you should stop top posting. It's frown upon in linux mailing 
lists even more than giving microsoft documents to linux users.

Second, I don't know what field you are in, but at least in applied  mathematics 
in Israel, I don't know anyone who knows what to do with a word document.

odt is still a problem of course, but personally I refuse to send or receive 
office documents from people in the university, and they manage to send PDFs for 
whatever formatted documents they want to send or text otherwise. Very few 
things actually need to be formatted as it turns out (and even when they are, 
unless it is PDF it usually arrives in the wrong format).


> 2010/7/5 Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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 :-)
>          >
>          > --
>          > Nadav Har'El                        |      Monday, Jul  5
>         2010, 23 Tammuz 5770
>          > nyh at math.technion.ac.il <mailto:nyh at math.technion.ac.il>
>                  |-----------------------------------------
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>          >
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