RE: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University

["Pieter E. Zanstra" <pieter@zanstra.eu>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Simos Xenitellis [mailto:simos.lists@googlemail.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:48 AM
>To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
>Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- 
>College/University
>
>On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Aquilina 
><eagles051387@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16/05/2012 08:18, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc 
>Paré<marc@marcpare.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an 
>>>> academic environment. What would some of you, who are using 
>>>> LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an 
>academic setting.
>>>>
>>>> I am not looking for a "wish-list", but a list of any 
>>>> extensions/add-ons to LibreOffice that are available right now. Is 
>>>> LibreOffice sufficient as is, or do any of you have any 
>suggestions 
>>>> of add-ons that are really needed for such a setting as a 
>>>> college/university/academic environment?
>>>>
>>> I think that LibreOffice, and specifically LibreOffice Writer, is 
>>> quite good in writing essays.
>>> You can use page and paragraph styles in order to create a 
>structured 
>>> document.
>>> The documentation has more information about this, or see
>>> http://simos.info/blog/archives/651
>>> Actually this is very important, because the proper use of 
>styles can 
>>> help you manage big documents.
>>>
>>> You can use math equations as in
>>> http://www.libreoffice.org/features/math/ so no third-party tool is 
>>> required.
>>>
>>> You can manage your bibliography with Zotero (Firefox 
>Add-on), which 
>>> has a feature to export to LibreOffice.
>>>
>>> Simos
>>>
>> Simos what about citation of sources and bibliographies, as well as 
>> appendices for lets say a thesis?
>>
>
>You can cite your bibliography in the document using 'Insert?citation".
>
>There are more bibliography tools, if you are interested to 
>test them out, JabRef, http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ 
>Mendeley, http://www.mendeley.com/ (+document management, 
>closed source).
>
>Regarding appendices, see
>http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg14422.html
>
>I wonder if there is a document on the LibreOffice Wiki about 
>all these.
>That is, a document that explains how to use LibreOffice 
>Writer for academic work.
>
>Simos

Indeed such a page or rather a chapter about usage of LIBO from the perspective of a young starting academic would be a very good thing to have. Maybe with the help of some fore runner academia? Might also be interesting idea for other professional areas. 
Pieter


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