Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
On 12 juil. 07, at 10:35, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Several years ago I had started a project to keep track of such
things, and to suggest ways to avoid problems.
http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/mso/folder_contents
Unfortunately, nothing ever came of it -- the usual problem of
insufficient time among those who were interested.
Isn't it rather because the discrepancies are small enough for most
tasks and/or only require relatively painless workarounds ?
As a translator I systematically work with OOo and OmegaT, check the
OOo file and only then convert and deliver without doing much final
checking on the Word file. Most problems are already documented bugs
for which I have found workarounds (like tables in tables cells in
Word/Writer) and I have yet to hear a complaint from a customer.
Jean-Christophe Helary
It's not the time it takes to rectify them.
A user might not be aware of them (while in a DOC format) that appear OK
while using Writer but appearing quite differently when viewed in Word.
So, an unaware user might just assume that everything is hunky-dory
because the doc looked OK while using Writer and didn't check it using
Word--until somebody later notices the "features"...
Gary
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