幹壞事是進步最大的原動力
在「OpenOffice, after years of neglect, could shut down」這邊看到 OpenOffice 要退場的計畫，自於 mailing list 上的「[DISCUSS] What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve? (long)」這篇。
信裡面完全沒提到 LibreOffice，但就目前幾個大的 distribution 都是安裝 LibreOffice 的情況下，其實會有這個提案就不言而喻了。雖然很可惜，但對整個社群能量的集中應該是好事...
話說回來，Apache Foundation 真的很像垃圾桶，一堆人都把不想維護的東西往那邊丟...
看到有人用 Markdown 寫電子書：「How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools」。
電子書的部份主要是透過 Pandoc 轉換，然後用 Dublin Core Metadata Element Set 提供 metadata。
實體書的部份也還是用 Pandoc 轉換成 ODT，而後面還是拿出 LibreOffice 對 page format 調整：
LibreOffice has many page formatting options that are non-obvious but incredibly important. For example, I wanted the first page of each chapter to be a right page, and to exclude the page header. I defined my chapter heading style to have a “page break before” and set a page style of “first page” (which is a right page without a header), which is followed by “right page”, which is followed by “left page”, which goes back to “right page”.
主要還是 Pandoc 這個工具，找機會來轉些東西看看效果...