Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia

Le 2010-10-18 12:25, Jon Hamkins a écrit :
> On 10/17/2010 05:28 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> > This thread is to explore the LibO use in Academia and tools necessary
> > to make it more appealing.
> >
> > Marc
>
> Here are a few things that would make LibO appealing to academia:
>
> 1. Export to LaTeX*. Support for LaTeX in OOo was limited to the
> OOoLaTeX extension, which allows one to interface to a TeX engine by
> typing an equation in LaTeX-style, calling the TeX engine, and inserting
> a PNG of the typeset result into the OOo document. It would be really
> great if there were a "save as" option to save an OOo document in LaTeX
> -- then LibO could become like "LyX," a GUI for LaTeX, but better.
> Academic departments sometimes insist on LaTeX thesis submissions, so
> this could provide a real boost in LibO usage.

Now this seems like a promising suggestion. I like this. We should get 
an interested dev to look a this.

> Import from LaTeX would also be nice, but not likely to be easy for
> anything beyond basic capabilities, there are thousands of LaTeX
> packages, and supporting all of that infrastructure is hard.
> Incidentally, LaTeX export/import functionality is offered as a
> commercial plugin to MSO, with the Word2TeX and TeX2Word commercial
> plugin, and the export quality is much better than the import.

Again, this would required a dev to be interested in providing this as a 
plugin.

> 2. Native support for the BibTeX reference organizer.

Not sure if this is used universally in academia. How popular is it? At 
what level of academia is it beint used?

> 3. Good and varied templates for resumes, CVs. Perhaps these are already
> available?

I believe the are quite a few examples of CV's and resumes online 
already, but this is no reason to update or add to it. If you have 
samples, we could add to it.

> * LaTeX is a powerful typesetting system often used for technical fields
> in academia. For mathematical expressions, the quality cannot be beat,
> and even for text, the kerning and text flow is quite sophisticated
> (see, e.g., http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex).

Is LaTex use by all levels of academia? I am more familiar with the 
music academics and I have to say that LaTex is not an option that I 
have ever encountered.

> ----Jon

Marc


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