is not published by M$. (there might be an exeption for some unusual
very complex word documents not fully understandable by openoffice, but
from my experience this is only a very tiny proportion of word documents
using some special feature like macros, etc.).
Your last sentence shows that the specification is not public. That
is all that is required to keep it from being Transparent. Having a
tool that partially implements the spec does not completely document
the spec.
The whole specification is indeed not public. What I claim is that a
document using only word features fully understandable by openoffice
might be considered as trandsparent since it use only spec available to
the public: the subset of word fully understandable by openoffice is
public. If a document use features that are not available to the public
it is indeed not transparent. But there are very few such documents.
Olive
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