On 19/01/2014, doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: > On 01/18/2014 06:32 PM, Peter West wrote: >> On 19 Jan 2014, at 6:12 am, Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: >>> (As an editor of a small (~1000 circulation) newsletter, it is important >>> to me to >>> use standards which are available and in common use by those with >>> Windows >>> PCs, Apple computers with either of two quite different operating >>> systems, >>> and Linux--the latter probably only by me!) >>>
That standard is odf; you should make a proposal within your group to use odt as your editing file format. If you are unable to convince accordingly, you should buy m$o; LO is not a free m$ clone. If others report problems with the odt standard (they need to report such bugs to the relevant organisation (http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg36224.html) > > OTOH, some of the sources are from fairly unsophisticated people, > to whom pdf is probably less familiar than stp (a motor lubricant). > Some of that input comes from .doc files, some from email (!) It is not too uncommon for latex collaborators to submit content as plain text in e-mail, then using version control to collate all input. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
