[libreoffice-l10n] Re: [Pootle] Translation help for unit 40270452

Good morning Christian, *,
On Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 23:15 Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Hackert
> <thackert@nexgo.de> wrote:
> > sorry for bother you again, but in the above mentioned unit
> >
> > <quote>
> > With several legacy pre-ODF1.2 and ODF1.2-only consumers out
> > there, users wanted a more backward-compatible ODF 1.2 extended
> > mode, that uses stuff deprecated in 1.2, and/or is
> > 'bug-compatible' to older OpenOffice.org versions. Therefore the
> > ODF 1.2 Extended (compat) mode was introduced.
> > </quote>
> >
> > How is that paragraph meant to read? There are several users out
> > there, who uses old ODF versions (but what does "legacy" mean in
> > that context?)?
>
> legacy means old/end-of-life/outdated.

hm. But is it not doubled by the "pre" suffix?
 
> The meaning is that there on the one hand there a still quite a
> lot of people who use software that doesn't really support ODF 1.2
> (legacy pre-ODF1.2 consumers), but on the other hand there is
> software that only reads ODF 1.2 documents (ODF1.2-only
> consumers).

O.K.

> To bring those two together, a "compatible" mode has been added,
> that uses deprecated stuff (you should no longer use that stuff in
> ODF-1.2, but it does so nevertheless to allow pre-ODF1.2 software
> to read the file as intended by the author of the document), but
> as it is still ODF1.2 (although not a "clean" one), also the
> "ODF1.2-only" software is happy.

O.K:

> > I seem to understand it that way, that there are
> > several users out there, who still use the old ODF file format,
> > so that the developers have "invented" the ODF 1.2 extended mode
> > (correct me, if I am wrong ... ;) ), so that these users can use
> > it with their older files (not sure, what "stuff depreacted"
> > should exactly means, though ... :( ).
>
> No it is about allowing old software to read newly created (or
> re-saved :-)) ODF 1.2 documents

Ah, O.K: Than I have interpreted this section completely wrong ... :
(

> Old files are not affected at all. You need to open and save in
> the "ODF1.2 compat" format to change the document.
>
> So if you're only using current versions of LibreOffice, you don't
> need that compatibility format. But when you exchange/process
> documents with non-LibreOffice (and non-OpenOffice, or just
> ancient versions) software that doesn't understand ODF 1.2 format,
> then this format will (probably) help.

Thanks for your explanation :) Now I only need to get it to a good 
translation in Pootle ... ;)
Read you
Thomas.

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