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Paul Sutton wrote: > Done, its interesting to note the following > * standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF)*: > > Anyone submitting documents to websites or asking for documents in > something other than DOC, can now quote the following, > > I have attached my assignment in industry standard * ISO26300 Open > Document Format (ODF)*: format, > > No one can argue with that can they, Any comments. > > I'm a tutor with the Open University and it is sad to say but in most (but not all) cases you would get a (possibly polite) notice from your tutor saying that the document _must_ be submitted in doc format for it to be marked. No argument, you just fail the course unless you toe the line :-) If it was your final assignment and you submitted in the "wrong" format and too close to the deadline to resubmit you might well simply fail the entire course anyway. Intro: I'm new to this list; I ran linux (SuSE :-( for many years in my previous incarnation as a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Sheffield University and I'd love to wean myself off dependence on Windows but this is no easy task. For example: I am using the omnipage windows OCR tool that came with my scanner and I very much doubt if any of the open source tools recently reviewed would hack the job I'm doing in my spare time. This involves scanning and recognising a noisy document written in an ancient typewriter font that the software recognises with remarkable precision and offers me excellent editing facilities tied to a spell-checker (I'll give you one guess whose) when words are not recognised. The scanning / OCR / proofreading tools are well integrated and make the job bearable. My job with the OU _requires_ me to use software that only functions correctly in a windows environment. I use a number of commercial packages which have no linux counterparts or where licencing restrictions tie me to a specific operating system. Mathematica being one of them. > Paul > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html