RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

Well, many products have been producing documents identified as ODF 1.2 for some time.  There are 
changes that came in during 2010 that, as far as I can tell, are not consistently handled yet.  And 
the OpenFormula specification, a major part of ODF 1.2, will take some time to be fully 
implemented.  (My eye is on Gnumeric for moving the goal posts on that one.)

There will doubtless be far more attention to ODF 1.2 conformance and interoperability, in detail, 
now that ODF 1.2 is considered stable and especially as it works its way toward ratification as an 
ISO/IEC International Standard next year.

Some regrettable small things in ODF 1.2 are also showing up and I look forward to plugfests and 
the work of the ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC to help sort those out and find workarounds 
until there can be ODF 1.2 Errata or remedy in ODF 1.3.

There is no official "ODF 1.2 (extended)" only "ODF 1.2" if interoperability is desired.  
"(extended)" is a private matter and it might not be the same between products and even different 
releases of the same product.  Whatever "(extended)" means, it depends on the individual-product 
implementers to say.

I agree that, in terms of current releases that might have more attention to ODF 1.2 provisions, 
LibreOffice is a good choice, depending on what additional ODF 1.2 support is important and being 
provided.  I don't think that is a determining factor in much I've seen so far, though.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 04:56
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

Hi :)
All releases of LibreOffice have used the 1.2 (Extended) by default.  I think OpenOffice was using 
it for quite a long time before that too.  I think the only program that still uses the older 1.1 
or 1.0 formats is MS Office 2010.  I think Google-docs, KOffice, Calligra, AbiWord & Gnumeric 
(together those 2 form Gnome Office) and the IBM's Lotus Symphony (or whatever it's called) all 
have been using 1.2 for a few years.  

In LibreOffice you can confirm by clicking on
Tools - Options - "+ Load/Save" - General
about half-way down there is a drop-down showing "1.2 (Extended)".  I usually change this to the 
older 1.0/1.1 in order to be able to send stuff to MS Office users more easily.

If you do have an older program then install any version of LibreOffice instead! ;) Lol
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sat, 1/10/11, Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Saturday, 1 October, 2011, 10:39

Congratulations to all.

I believe that a solid open file format is extremely important. 

Am I correct to assume that ODF 1.2 is backward compatible? I.e. an old
application will still be able to open a ODF 1.2 document?

Dennis, one curiosity since you were one of the editors: I assume you didn't
use LO Writer to compose the 1217 page document. Which program did you use?
Scribus?

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