[Bug 79641] LibreOffice 4.4 most annoying bugs

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79641

--- Comment #72 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to meneerjansen00 from comment #71)
> I take it then that we do not have to count on (work starting on) a fix for
> this bug to come anytime soon? That will be quite disappointing for a lot of
> LO users I'm afraid...

Not at all, work on the WW8 import/export filters is continual. For example, if
you follow the samples and discussion of bug 50774 there has been noted
improvement. 

Otherwise, concise test cases with annotated comparisons in the XML of OOXML
and ODF rendering of the sample documents will provide needed incentive to devs
for correcting the filters. That as opposed to general statements that it is
"not working".

In general, differences in XML structure--in describing styles and direct
formatting--is what goes awry with the filter conversion process. Microsoft
handles things "differently" in OOXML to the XML LO composes in ODF.  The
filters have to resolve the difference--an ongoing development task.  The MS
.DOC formats are more robust (and less dynamic), but do also have round trip
filter issues--just fewer of them.

Filing useful bug reports aside, a user can put the onus back on Microsoft and
export from there as ODF (e.g. .odt), rather than OOXML (e.g. .docx). Or in a
more parochial sense work only in LibreOffice rendered ODF--that is what
LibreOffice as a project is obliged to support.

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