OpenOffice.org is the reference office suite for the open source community, and its adoption has been increasing (see here and here, for example) thanks to its complete implementation of the standard ISO OpenDocument format and the good compatibility with commercial formats. OpenOffice.org offers the possibility of extending the functionality of the suite through extensions, which can be downloaded from the OpenOffice.org extensions website. A few extensions are very useful to authors and scientists: OOoLatex allows LaTeX equations to be inserted in your Writer and Presenter documents, without any limitation. The LaTeX installation of your system is used to compile the LaTeX source, and the equation is added to the document…

Alda Merini was a very prolific Italian writer and poet. You can read more about her on her website, wanted by her daughters to remind of her.