[Gllug] Linux on Desktop

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, John G Walker wrote:

> > This also ignores the fact that a lot of journals and conference
> > proceedings want submissions in Word .doc format.
>
> While not disagreeing with the general tenor of Dan's email, I would
> point out that you can create .doc documents using OpenOffice,

Indeed. Moreover it's likely that what they really mean is they want it 
in a form they can open in MS Word.

You can satisfy that with a text file, RTF file, .doc file or a number of 
other formats that Word will import with varying degrees of success.

Publishers will want to reformat the document to their own standards 
anyway.

Jason
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