did you know that you have a choice?

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Did you know that you have a choice?

2014 March 14Nonprofit organization OOOUG [o:ju:dʒi:]

Yosuke Kato

2特定非営利活動法人オーユージー 2014 / Nonprofit organization OOOUG 2014

What do you use when you “write”?

A tablet made of clay?

Using hieroglyph?

Of course NOT!Hieroglyph : public domain (site)Clay tablet : public domain (site)

http://www.pdphoto.org/PictureDetail.php?mat=&pg=8755

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tablet_Rimush_Louvre_AO5476.jpg


Then, what SOFTWARE do you use?

Probably Microsoft Office (Word / Excel / PowerPoint)

What else? Can you suggest anything else?

● OpenOffice.org (discontinued)

● LibreOffice

● Apache OpenOffice

● JUST Office (Ichitaro and other products)

For those who didn't know these products above, let me show you some cases and recommended tools to use.


CASE1: Japanese vertical writing

Originated from Chinese old writing way, there are many books written vertically.

● Novels / Laws / Spines of the books

If you have to take care of the layout;

● IchitaroA Japanese product, of course good for Japanese manuscript paper (e.g. 400 character grid paper)

If you send the draft text to the professional editors;

● Hidemaru, or any other vertical writing support editorYour role is to provide the text, others will care the layout


CASE2: Horizontal writing

Horizontal writing way for Japanese or other languages;

● Microsoft Word

● Writer (LibreOffice / Apache OpenOffice)Since these are developed in the Eastern countries, they are suitable for the writing in English styles.

Horizontal writing with character based indent;

● IchitaroTo use the monospace based layout, which is typical way for Japanese bureaucrat style, Japanese product is suitable for this purpose.

● WriterYou can manually set the monospace indent


CASE3: Multiple language in a document

If you need to write a document that contains multiple language;

● Writer (LibreOffice / Apache OpenOffice)From the point of “internationalization” view, LibreOffice / Apache OpenOffice can be recommended.

“Localization” and “Internationalization” (or globalization)

● Localization : Translating the software into some local language

● Internationalization : Enable the software to handle multiple languages, e.g. you can write a report written in Japanese using English version of the software


CASE4: PC without any office suites

Say you have to start your work but the only PC you got has no office suites installed.

● LibreOffice Portable

Portable Apps

● Portable applications can be started from the USB memory, without any installation.

● If you bring USB memory with LibreOffice portable, you can use LibreOffice anywhere.

● Windows only.


Extra CASE: Need more language version?

If you need a localized version of some specific languages;

● LibreOffice

As of 2014 March,

● Microsoft Office offers 40 language packs for Office2013.

● LibreOffice offers 110 language packs.

ArabicBulgarianChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEnglishEstonianFinnishFrenchGermanGreek

HebrewHindiHungarianIndonesianItalianJapaneseKazakhKoreanLatvianLithuanianMalay (Malaysian)Norwegian (Bokmål)PolishPortuguese (Brazil)

Portuguese (Portugal)RomanianRussianSerbian (Latin)SlovakSlovenianSpanishSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianVietnamese


Language packs for LibreOffice

Afrikaans AfrikaansAlbanian shqipAmharic አማርኛArabic العربيةAssamese অসমমযযAsturian AsturianuBasque euskeraBelarusian беларускаяBengali বযবলযBengali (India) বযবলয (ভযরত)Bodo (India) बबडबBosnian BosanskiBreton brezhonegBulgarian българскиBurmese မနနစCatalan catalàCatalan (Valencian) català (valencià)Chinese (simplified) 中文 ( 体简 )Chinese (traditional) 中文 (正體)Croatian HrvatskiCzech češtinaDanish danskDogri डबगररDutch NederlandsDzongkha རརང་ཁEnglish (GB) English (GB)English (US) English (US)English (ZA) English (ZA)Esperanto EsperantoEstonian eesti keelFinnish suomiFrench françaisGalician Galego

Georgian ქართულიGerman DeutschGreek ελληνικάGujarati ગગજરરતતHebrew עבריתHindi हहनदरHungarian magyarIcelandic ÍslenskaIndonesian Bahasa IndonesiaIrish GaeilgeItalian italianoJapanese 日本語Kannada ಕನನಡKashmiri كشميريKazakh ҚазақшаKhmer ខខខរKinyarwanda kinyaRwandaKonkani कबककणरKorean 한국어 [韓國語]Kurdish (latin script) Kurdish (latin script)Lao ພາສາລາວLatvian latviešuLithuanian Lietuvių kalbaLuxembourgish LëtzebuergeschMacedonian македонскиMaithili ममहथलरMalayalam മലയയളളManipuri মমইততইললযনMarathi मररठरMongolian монголNdebele (South) NdébéléNepali ननपरलर

Nepali ननपरलरNorthern Sotho Sesotho sa LeboaNorwegian Bokmål BokmålNorwegian Nynorsk NynorskOccitan occitanOriya ଓଡଡ ଡଆOromo Afaan OromoPanjabi ਪਪਜਜਬਬPersian فارسىPolish polskiPortuguese portuguêsPortuguese (Brazil) português (Brasil)Romanian românRussian РусскийSanskrit सकसकक तममSantali सकथरलरScottish Gaelic GàidhligSerbian српскиSerbian (latin script) srpski latinicomSidamaSindhi سندھیSinhala සසහලSlovak slovenčinaSlovenian slovenščinaSouthern Sotho SesothoSpanish españolSwahili kiswahiliSwati siSwatiSwedish SvenskaTajik тоҷикӣTamil தமமழழTatar татар телеTelugu తలగ

Thai ภาษาไทยTibetan བརད་ཡཡགTsonga xiTshongaTswana seTswanaTurkish TürkçeUighur ئۇيغۇرچەUkrainian УкраїнськаUzbek ўзбекVenda tshiVenḓaVietnamese tiếng việtWelsh Welsh/CymraegXhosa isiXhosaZulu isiZulu

Klingon localization project is ongoing but the language pack is not available yet.

Malay (Malaysian) is not available, but Indonesian is provided.


Conclusion: Now that you know the choice

You have a choice, many choices.

● Maybe you just didn't know that you HAVE.

● Maybe you just didn't have interest for this area.

Now you know that you can choose what is better for you.

Please consider the choice to make your life a bit easier

This document is just a brief starter for you.If you want further information, please contact us.

Nonprofit organization OOOUG (Japan)


References

Microsoft Officehttp://office.microsoft.com/

LibreOfficehttps://www.libreoffice.org/

Apache OpenOfficehttp://www.openoffice.org/

JUST Officehttp://www.justsystems.com/jp/products/justoffice/

CreativeCommons BY-NC-ND 4.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

http://office.microsoft.com/

https://www.libreoffice.org/

http://www.openoffice.org/

http://www.justsystems.com/jp/products/justoffice/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/


About Nonprofit organization OOOUG

http://oooug.jp/


About Nonprofit organization OOOUG

Nonprofit organization Oooug is a group of volunteers in Japan, promoting the OpenOffice.org successor and derivatives.。

● What is OpenOffice.org?The open-source office suite software developed to be free from any vendors.

● About derivativesThough OpenOffice.org project is discontinued, the derivatives such as LibreOffice and/or Apache OpenOffice succeed its purpose and continue developing.

What should be realized promoting the software?

● Provide the “choice” for the office suites

Make change to the situation (especially in Japan) that the only one high-cost vendor for the office suite.

● More environment to access to the documents.

Provide the interoperability among different office suites.

Mitigate the risk to lose your documents according to the one commercial enterprise policy changes (stop supporting access to the old files).

What we want to enlighten through the promotion

● Make users understand they have the “choice” even for the business required office suites, and get the ability to think what is the best way for them to accomplish the aims.

did you know that you have a choice?

Education

multiple language

office suites

public domain

japanese product

latin script

japanese

libreoffice

writer