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On Wednesday 12 November 2008 12:03, Aaron Trevena wrote: > 2008/11/11 Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> Thought this would be of interest > >> > >> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/11/university-challe > >>nged-ditch > >> > >> I am an OU student, so it will be interesting to see what happens. > > > > Oops, sent to wrong place, anyway, yeah interesting development, they > > already give out star office, but assignments need to be sent in .doc > > format, > > Requiring that assignments are sent in .doc is nuts - unlike printed > coursework, word/ooo/staroffice files can look completely different in > different versions, and you can end up with a 20 page document that > looks great on your computer looking a complete dogs dinner on the > computer of whoever is supposed to read and mark it, the only > reasonable format to accept would be PDF or postscript - and you can > get free plugins on every platform for every word processor to do > that. HTML is even better as it doesn't force you into 'paper' choices, allows you to focus on the information in the document and not the document itself. The amount of formatting in a document is inversely proportional to the value of its content. Tom te tom te tom -- 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