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

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