2025-09-05, 16:00–16:30 (Europe/Budapest), Track Room
Many Japanese universities ask students to write papers using unique Microsoft Word formats. These formats include strict rules for fonts, spacing, margins, and more. Using LibreOffice to match these formats is often difficult.
In this talk, I will show how I recreated several university formats in LibreOffice Writer. I will also introduce a project to create and share many templates for different universities. This can help spread LibreOffice in Japan and offer a useful example for other Asian countries with similar needs.
In the future, these templates could also be adapted for academic conference papers, further encouraging the use of LibreOffice in research communities.
In Japan, universities often require students to follow specific formatting rules for writing theses and reports. These rules are usually based on Microsoft Word and include detailed settings for fonts, line spacing, margins, and layout. However, these requirements are different at each university, which makes it hard to follow them using LibreOffice.
In this session, I will share how I recreated one university’s thesis format using LibreOffice Writer. I will explain the steps I took, such as setting up styles, adjusting fonts, and making the layout match the original Word version. I will also talk about a larger project: creating and sharing many templates, each made for a different university.
Instead of using one general template, this project builds a collection of specific templates that others can use and improve. It will make LibreOffice more useful in Japanese schools, and it can also help in other Asian countries with similar formatting needs.
Looking ahead, these templates could also be extended to meet the formatting requirements of academic conferences, helping LibreOffice gain wider adoption in research and professional writing.
Koji Annoura is a highly experienced full-stack developer with over 40 years in the industry.
He has been involved in Agile software development since 2009 and played a key role in founding the "Neo4j Users Group Tokyo" in Japan. Additionally, he established the "Apache Hop User Group Japan" in 2021.
Koji has actively supported numerous companies and teams in their agile transformation journeys, assisting with the implementation of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
He is also an accomplished author, having contributed to "A technical guidebook to cloud native databases", "The Practical Guide to MacOS X Server," and serves as a technical reviewer for "Graph Data Processing with Cypher."