Hallo,

Es tut mir leid, aber Ich werde hier in English schreiben, weil es ein
bisschen zu schwierig werden konnte... :-)

Andre has made some good points here, but I think there are three things
should be said about the Open Document Format:
-it's not the best format ever; but it is certainly one of the best and
it's been designed in a very standardized, very normative way as to
allow every other office suite to implement it.
-as a consequence, the Open Document specification itself is not very
detailed so that layout issue is surprizing: however, some time ago some
lead developpers from Gnumeric started to blog furiously against the
Open Document file format and were expressing a quite similar problem
concerning especially the spreadsheet layout and filtering capacities.
Now, Gnumeric is certainly the most complete spreadsheet application
ever, but they just fell short from the point and acted as if they were
jealous and were not understanding the key part of the Open Document
format: it's a standard, and it has to be used by everybody.
-last point: the layout issue, although I'm not an expert, may be
possible or not, but in anyway, be ready to hear a flow of new issues
when the 2.0 will be released. There will be for instance people who
will have trouble with fonts, because they will edit their documents
both on Windows and Linux. And they will come here and tell you that
Open Document is not so good. Well, remember that Open Document is
really just our old OpenOffice file format that has been simplified and
standardized as to be used by many applications. It is far to be
perfect, but it works just fine.

Hope this helps,

Charles.


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