LibreOffice version 4

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Feb 9 21:50:43 UTC 2013


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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