Calligra 2.5 released

Posted Aug 13, 2012 21:50 UTC (Mon) by daglwn (guest, #65432)
In reply to: Calligra 2.5 released by apolinsky
Parent article: Calligra 2.5 released

This would really be helpful. For example, what is it about Calligra makes it focused toward students/academia?

I use Libre Office simply because it seems to do most of what I need. I would prefer something "better" in some amorphous way I have yet to explicitly determine. Comparisons with other suites might help clarify that.

Calligra 2.5 released

Posted Aug 14, 2012 9:34 UTC (Tue) by ingwa (guest, #71149) [Link] (2 responses)

We are not focussing on students and academia in general, i.e. the long term. But we have to start somewhere and we are focussing on the needs of the students primarily in our choices on which features to implement at this early stage.

One example of that is that we will have a top-notch bibliography engine in the next version. There is currently a Google Summer of Code project with that objective and as far as I know the results are good.

Something that is also true but wasn't very visible in the announcement is that Calligra is *the* suite to use if you want to build office functionality into something else. It's much easier to do that than with any other free office suite. In fact it's designed from the bottom up to make it possible to create new UI's (even touch based ones) or slash or add features for special builds. Calligra is in several smartphones already as pre-installed applications and right now we in KO GmbH are working on creating a variation of Krita for touch-enabled painting on Windows 8.

This makes it also well suited for research work where you want to build new features and test out on various user groups. One example could be usability studies.

Calligra 2.5 released

Posted Aug 14, 2012 11:11 UTC (Tue) by spaetz (guest, #32870) [Link]

Please try to integrate Zotero support into Calligra and you'll have one more use :-). A top-notch bibliography engine would be nice and all that, but it needs support for syncing databases and making use of existing journal style definitions (e.g. CSL engine support which is a separate dedicated component).

Calligra 2.5 released

Posted Aug 15, 2012 11:36 UTC (Wed) by ssam (guest, #46587) [Link]

good to hear that you are targeting bibliography tools (i was going to ask about that). I hope you have a developer who is familiar with strength of the Latex+bibtex+hyperref ways of working.

In my group no one would even consider writing a thesis in anything but latex. I dont think there is any inherent reason that a word processor could not compete.

Another related issue is internal referencing. So i can give a label to a figure or table, reference the label, and automatically get Figure 23 (where the 23 if automatically updated) which will be hyperlinked in the PDF to the figure.

To get scientist you will also need similar strength in equation formatting.