[odf-discuss] Three kinds of tests

[Ian Lynch]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 08:39 +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Bart Hanssens wrote:
> > +1
> > 
> > End-users will (ab)use your software beyond your wildest dreams (not 
> > using styles, entering newlines instead of page breaks, using a word 
> > processor as a photo album, playing lottery games in spreadsheets etc)
> 
> Did you know that most teachers in the UK try to get centered text by 
> pressing the space bar many times? Ditto for indentation.

Well I'm not sure most is true - there is no real objective evidence but
it's certainly not uncommon in primary schools. It's probably no worse
here than in most countries unless they systematically train teachers in
keyboard skills. I'd say most people do it in tables because they press
tab and it moves them to the next column. They simply don't know about
CTRL TAB. Even people who consider themselves IT literate. I have edited
literally hundreds of complex documents with tables produced by
secondary teachers and I'd say on that evidence most don't know about
ctrl tab but most do know about tab for general indents. 


> The OOoAuthors project (http://oooauthors.org) could contribute a couple 
> of documents. OOoAuthors makes the user guides for OpenOffice.org. These 
> are large and complex documents. They make good use of styles, but they 
> do use a lot of ODF features. There are documents available in several 
> languages including non-latin alphabets like Korean.

I have some documents but they often originated as .doc and got
converted to odf. Would that cause a problem for tests or is that
another dimension that needs testing? Or is it just irrelevant :-)

Ian
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