2012/2/5 Etzion Bar-Noy :
> Because most households in israel do not buy their office...
>
> It would be stupid to assume they do. Moreover - the school headmaster does
> not assume that either. He/she knows most people just "have" their office
> installed, and they care nothing about it.
>
Then t
2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland :
> I bet it cannot read my teacher's document!: a table full of oversized
> text, but mostly - toner/ink eating, useless, stupid^H^H^H^H^H images that
> never, and I mean never, really align in the needed cells but rather appear
> somewhere else in the document. That's true
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:23, geoffrey mendelson
wrote:
> It depends. I can't speak to it directly, my Hebrew level is such that a
> crayon would be enough, but my son who is in high school was told by the
> school to use Microsoft Office for Windows because there were capabilities
> that he neede
2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland :
> of course the whole reason to this thread and me contacting the principal is
> the fsck'ed up document. The document appears badly in LibreOffice
> and Google docs (imported).
Boaz, please send to me the document so that I can file OOo / LO bugs.
Thanks.
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2012/2/5 Oleg Goldshmidt :
> How about suggesting that such docs should be exported into HTML (which Word
> is capable of doing, IIRC) before emailing? It would be nice if the creator
> could look at the HTML in a browser to verify that it looks OK. of course,
> the browser is likely to be IE 32-bi
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 15:52, Micha wrote:
> I can't seem to change page numbering (i.e suppress page numbering on
> some pages) or change head/footer format. One thing that microsoft does
> ok (but messes up a whole lot of others in return).
>
For this you need to define a custom header / footer
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 16:38, Meir Michanie wrote:
> Another issue is that at schools the kids are asked to use a site
> named 'ofek' which it doesn't run under linux and my kids are force to
> run windows in vmware,...
Thanks, I just wrote to them.
> another site that kids have access for free
2012/2/5 Mordechai Behar :
> Those are just developer tools, and even then, only a few institutions in
> Israel are accepted as viable places of study that will allow a student to
> download the software.
> A better system is the MSDAA (Microsoft Developers Academic Alliance) which
> allows a stude
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 02:43, Oron Peled wrote:
>> If not there
>> are some free-as-in-beer plugins available for MS Office to support the
>> OpenDocument formats.
>
> There was a Sun plugin, which was covered in the above interoperability
> paper, but:
> * It needed some registration to use (so
On Feb 8, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
This is a perfect time to explain:
1) They cannot have everything they want
2) Life is unfair
3) Some people (the management of that site) are irresponsible and
hurt others
That is how my 5 and 3 year old daughters would hear it in this
situ
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 16:38, Meir Michanie wrote:
> Another issue is that at schools the kids are asked to use a site
> named 'ofek' which it doesn't run under linux and my kids are force to
> run windows in vmware,...
The tech support representative for Ofek says that the site will soon
support
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:55, geoffrey mendelson > I see it
differently. Not because I like it, or agree with it, but because I
> am a cynic and believe the Israeli mindset to be different. I see it that
> they will say that they have a limited budget and the cost of providing the
> service to Wind
On 02/05/2012 10:26 PM, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:02 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote:
yuck!
So it was ok for SUN to buy StarOffice and give it away in order to
reduce MS/Office sales?
OpenOffice's free price and open source was a marketing tool too.
Bad because it's "dumping",
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 22:09, Michael Vasiliev wrote:
> I, for one, use quite a lot of
> code long abandoned by it's authors.
>
I knew that I'm not the last KDE 3 lover out there!
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