Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: What version?

Hi :)
I didn't mean that Italo was wrong, just that it was possibly a bit geeky
(and that wasn't a disadvantage because he put it so well).

Where MS might be updating their doc, xls etc formats at least they have
hopefully stopped doing different versions for different versions of their
program.  It is Rtf that they have stopped developing.  The newer DocX,
XlsX etc seem to be very different.

For anyone interested in reading up about the ISO definitions this link
might help;
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html

If you scroll to the very bottom of the page you see 4 different papers
about OOXML (carefully named Office Open XML to avoid any confusion with
the pre-existing Open Document Format).  The OOXML standard has been
through 3 revisions and those 4 documents amount to 6,764 pages = lets say
over 6.5k.  Apparently first put through in 2012.  Apparently documents can
fully comply with the format even if they contain chunks/blobs that do not
conform!

If you scroll back up by 1 page then the ODF (Open Document Format) is
about half-way down.  It's under 800 pages and has been an ISO since 2006.
Apparently it was complete enough first time and has never needed to be
revised.  Documents must completely comply in order to be considered as
complying at all.

Regards from
Tom :)





On 10 August 2014 11:22, Owen Genat <owen.genat@gmail.com> wrote:

> Owen Genat wrote
> > The old MS Binary specifications last had an update of significance
> > (change in technical nature) on 2014-04-30 (XLS) and 2012-01-20 (DOC and
> > PPT).
>
> Oops. I am already out of date. The DOC and XLSB specifications had a major
> update 2014-07-31.
>
>
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