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Re: [LUG] Say NO toMicrosoft Office becoming an ISO Standard

 

> Matthew Fairtlough wrote:
>> 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.
> On a similar note: One of our tutors in uni *repeatedly* told us
> *beforehand* not to use DOCX format as she can't read it on her PC.
> Some did anyway so I sympathise with lecturers who make that kind of
> reasonable request only to have it ignored.  I said to her after 'How
> many times did you tell us NOT to use DOCX?'  She just sighed and said
> 'I know.. I give up!'
>

I wonder what would happen if you were to submit your thesis in XML and
include a self running browser on a CD...

They can't say that they can't read it eh ?


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