Re: [libreoffice-users] mail format

On 19/01/2014, doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 01/18/2014 06:32 PM, Peter West wrote:
> > On 19 Jan 2014, at 6:12 am, Doug <dmcgarrett@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.

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