[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for LibreOffice

Hi Tom, all

Let me be the "Devil's advocate" for a moment...


Tom wrote
> MS keeps claiming that is what their new format is all about.  They
> claimed it with Rtf which they no longer develop which fits their pattern
> for gradually dropping completely and they are claiming it again with
> their DocX and all.  

RTF is plain text with format codes. So it is true that you can open it even
in a text editor. Even if it is discontinued, it is not encrypted.
Docx is exactly the same as ODT. A Zip container which stores objects such
as images, formats and the actual text in a XML file.


Tom wrote
> Given that ODF 1.0 and 1.1 still open in LO, AOO and all the rest it looks
> like ODF might achieve the promise, especially given that "contents"
> written in Xml can be opened and read.

The same applies to MS Office. You can always open previous MS files in a
newer Office version.

As explained above ODF follows the same logic as OOXML ;)
In both cases you need to have some program that opens the zip container in
order to have access to the XML file which contains the text.

Cheers,
Pedro



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