RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF 1.2 Approval and Extensions (was RE: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx f...)

Dennis

On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 19:48 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: 

> I agree.  I think the question was asked better here, in terms of what the consequences for user 
> choice are.  I also think the answer about Draw and Impress is nicely concrete.  
>
> The only way I can think of other than that is to see how those features show up in the XML 
> representation of the document.  Then one might look to see if there are any others in documents, 
> but hitting one that way may be a wild-goose chase.  I agree, there should be a documented list 
> somewhere.
>
> It would also be good to see how such features are ignored in other products (older versions and 
> newer) that were doubtless implemented in ignorance of those features. (An easy thing to check 
> would be to see what Word 2007 would do with an .odt having comments in drawings.  A standard 
> action would be to silently ignore the extension.  I can try Symphony too.)
>
> This may be off-topic for [libreoffice-users] except understanding about the interoperability 
> impact of configuration options seems useful for those who work with multiple products.

To me it is on topic basic it furthers understanding of the
import/export problems with MS Office formats. This question comes up
fairly often and being able to answer it more correctly helps


> - Dennis
>
> PS: Won't your viewer wordwrap?  I know that there are screwy HTML archive pages that don't 
> figure out when to use <p> instead of <pre>, so wordwrap is disabled. (I would love a browser 
> button that caused wordwrap to the current width of the browser page.)
>
> My problem, as in all of these things, is then I have to do a setting like that with everyone and 
> not everyone likes the result of fixed line lengths (especially when the level of quotation leads 
> to a new line break). 
>
> I'll consider it though.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NoOp [mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 19:21
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF 1.2 Approval and Extensions (was RE: Calc corrupted an Excel 
> xlsx f...)
>
> On 09/08/2011 06:12 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > On 09/08/2011 05:05 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> > > Wow, that's great information Gary!
> > >
> > > Thanks.  So there is no reason to choose 1.2 (extended) unless one
> > > is using the Draw and Impress commenting provision.  And losing the
> > > comments in other products that don't recognize the extension is
> > > benign.
> > >
> > > It would be great to test that.
> > >
> > > - Dennis
> >
> > I'll see if I can get time to do some tests tomorrow. However, my
> > guess is that we'll need to post on the dev list to get further
> > details.
>
> Dennis, I checked and it's already been asked on the dev list:
>
> <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/6824>
> (note: you will need to click on '(continue reading)' to expand the
> responses... or just go over to the dev list and view the thread there.
>
> Still not sure if that answers /any/ questions as it seems that the
> responses are as vague (to me) as the question.
>
> Gary
>
> ...
>
>
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