On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 6:21 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> As I think about it, I don't see much basis for anyone to come up with a
> "universal" spreadsheet format.  Certainly, OO/SO, gnumeric, and kspread
> developers COULD do so but it would be universal only to them and leave out
> excel and lotus users (M$ would have no reason whatsoever to support such a
> format unless OO/SO use really took off and they were forced to). 
> Tex-based could be useful, as would a STANDARD use of XML, but I don't
> think any would be better overall than HTML for presentation, only for
> manipulation in a mixed environment.
>
As a matter of interest, how did .rtf come into being?

Anne
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