LibreOffice version 4

Bill Oliver vendor at billoblog.com
Sun Feb 10 03:22:35 UTC 2013


Heh.  Life is too short.  I had to use TeX/LaTex when I was a grad student.  When I left, I never looked back.

billo

On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 21:18 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote:
>> On 09.02.2013, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>
>>> You would chose another distribution over having a choice between two nearly
>>> identical packages? Wow.
>>
>> I would choose to stay with the package (=Libreoffice) that I'm used
>> to. If this wouldn't be possible, I would switch. All my templates,
>> all my documents and all my experience are based on Libreoffice. When
>> you haveto write a lot of acedemic articles, it's the most essential
>> thing that you can rely on your office environment. "Nearly identical"
>> could mean a lot of extra work to particularly learn a new
>> system. Time which you can't use for something useful.
>>
>
>
> The best program for handling academic documents is LaTex. Any Mictosoft
> like product can't hold a candle to LaTex for this job. Of course, you
> would have to learn a new document producing system. The learning curve
> is not easy but once it is learned you will never go back to producing
> complex documents any other way.
>
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