Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:40:05 +0200
Boaz Rymland <boaz.rymland at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > 2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland <boaz.rymland at gmail.com>
> >
> >>
> >> of course the whole reason to this thread and me contacting the principal
> >> is the fsck'ed up document. The document appears badly in LibreOffice
> >> and Google docs (imported). I verified this since sept. 1st till now, on a
> >> weekly basis. Yes, OO does read the document and sort of presents the data
> >> within, including ok hebrew but I don't want and deserve to do guess work
> >> or work harder to try to read a basic document I need to get. I want it to
> >> be perfectly accessible to me, at least it is for M$ Office users.
> >>
> >
> > How about suggesting that such docs should be exported into HTML (which
> > Word is capable of doing, IIRC) before emailing? It would be nice if the
> > creator could look at the HTML in a browser to verify that it looks OK. of
> > course, the browser is likely to be IE 32-bit...
> >
> 
> I think that's not the best solution. I'd rather have the teacher spread
> documents as either links to google docs documents, ODT documents, or PDF,
> exported from those documents. I tend to think that the order described
> above is the desired order of preference, at least to my taste and line of
> thought. Google docs is the easiest and is portable anytime when google
> will change something on their side. ODT is more cumbersome (requires
> installation of OO on the systems used by the teachers) but is truly open
> format, lasting solution. 

I believe recent versions of Microsoft Office support ODT (I don't know how
perfectly). At least I saw it in their file formats' drop box. If not there are
some free-as-in-beer plugins available for MS Office to support the OpenDocument
formats.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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