"M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:20051028085533.GD4077 @mclink.it:
> In any case, please just ignore your (or my) own files. Nobody else > cares about them. This is about millions of public and corporate > documents which is essential to keep COMPLETELY legible in fifty years > time. WHATEVER they contain. Be it macros (**), complex tables and > equations, formulas.... > I am in favour of this as a long-term goal. (I can't see the point of saving the macros, but that's another matter). As a voter, and a citizen, I think it's excellent. But as a writer who has to sell his work it's irrelevant right now. >> while the .doc originals are also -- and this is useful -- legible >> today by all the people with whom I do business. > > Obviously you've never reviewed with OpenOffice a patent application > written with Word. That was rather my original point. MS Office _is_ the one indispensable standard at the moment. I quite agree this is not ideal. Document exchange should take place with open and freely accessible formats. But the world doesn't work that way right now and OOo will only flourish in as much as it recognises and works around this fact. People who choose to use MS Office or Windows are not fools or brainwashed sheep. They are making perfectly rational decisions, trading time, money, and convenience off against each other. A wilful failure to understand this will get us nowhere. > And your business, whatever it is, does not need > any really complex document layout. > I write books, articles, and radio scripts. Nothing tremendously complex, no. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
