Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO roadmap?

On 10/16/2010 12:33 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2010-10-16 15:29, j.martin.pedersen a écrit :
>
> > I will subscribe and attempt to find time to contribute.
> >
> > -martin
>
> Thanks, you are exactly the academic type of person I would be
> interested in having opinions in the marketing section. We need to hear
> more about academic use of LibO, advantages and drawbacks.

Note that Martin was referring to humanities and social science 
academics.  My experience in engineering and science is slightly 
different.  There is significant usage of LaTeX at many engineering 
universities (I hadn't heard of anyone at my university attempting a 
technical thesis using something else), and LaTeX uses BibTeX to 
organize references.  There are various open source bibliography 
reference managers for BibTeX -- I've heard good things about Jab Ref. 
I believe EndNote can export to BibTeX format, but I don't know about 
the other direction.  Most people I knew simply managed a BibTeX 
database directly.

I think LibO could gain significant traction with the university crowd 
if there were any kind of robust interaction with either LaTeX or 
BibTeX.  I know there is the OOoLaTeX extension, but its capabilities 
are quite limited compared to using LaTeX directly.  The advantage of 
LibO is that it is much easier to learn and produce something without a 
lot of training.

     ----Jon

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