On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 22:23 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Jonathon Coombes wrote:
> 
> > I would have to disagree somewhat here with you Daniel.
> 
> Disagree with what exactly? I said many things.
> Do you disagree that MS files are propietary or that our format is 
> superior?

I thought I had explained myself, I apologise. I seemed to get
the impression that your main point for "non-compliance" with
saving across formats was that MS Office was a proprietary format,
RATHER than OOo have superior methods of formatting etc. I just
wanted to point out that OOo does have superior methods of 
implementing objects,formats,styles etc that sometimes MS Office
cannot implement or emulate in a reasonable way. At least not yet! :)

> > I think the way you have worded it is quite politically correct,
> > but essentially there are some things that OpenOffice.org does
> > that MS Word does not do, or refuses to work with.
> 
> That's not the primary issue with the .doc format.

To some extent it is, I believe. Many of my clients have no issue
with converting across to .doc format for standard documents.
The ones that do cause a problem is when they save an OOo
document that has these advanced methods, and MSO cannot deal
with it correctly. I know that this relates to us trying to
translate what we can across to the proprietary format, but the
question originally was whether MSO could not implement certain
features in OOo. Thats all I was getting at.

Regards
Jonathon


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