Sadly, none of the office look-alikes on linux are fully compatible with
MS Office, so there are quirks to using them for proofing for bookshare.
The one I have the most experience with is LibreOffice. What it lacks is
the ability to convert MS Word section breaks to page breaks. Many OCR
programs put in section breaks instead of page breaks. Those who submit
scans should do this conversion, but new scanners often do not even know
their program is putting in section breaks instead of page breaks.
Another problem with LibreOffice is that sometimes it converts page
breaks that are followed by a paragraph marker to special page breaks
that contain the paragraph marker as part of the page break. When I was
doing proofing using my work computer which only has linux and
LibreOffice I would send the files to my home computer and use MS Office
to convert the special page breaks to regular page breaks before
submitting to bookshare. Still, from what I have heard LibreOffice is
the best, at least among the free programs.
Misha
On 1/18/2017 6:23 PM, Paonia N'Shaiha wrote:
What do people recommend to proof books in linux?
Thank you
Paonia
