[Libreoffice-ux-advise] It is not with regret...

[Stefan Knorr]

Hi José,

first of all, re:
> I am sending this email in a spirit of cooperation. Please do not
> publish it in the blog if you do not consider it helpful or
> politically appropriate at this point in time.

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Next, ...
> What has precipitated the move is the fact that we now receive hundreds of
> student assignments all written using MSOffice  .docX format, and the .docX
> format simply DOES NOT WORK in LibreOffice, or in (I have just also
> checked) OpenOffice. Pictures and graphics do not transfer,
> misinterpretation of formats is rife! Saying that LibreOffice permits .docX
> formats is churlish at best, false advertisement at worse.
...
> We are experienced users (me in particular a retired computer scientist in
> scientific image processing) and would myself prefer to use LibreOffice,
> but simply can not.

Certainly, there are rough spots in LibreOffice's support for
Microsoft's OOXML formats. Luckily, as you are a computer scientist you
should have two avenues available for helping it along:

1. work on LibreOffice's support for the OOXML features you think are
most in need yourself; if you don't have time for that but have some
monies at hand...

2. pitch in money to have a contractor work on the features you need and
then make them available to all

Regards,

Astron.