Hi Yamalos, Actually Write saves as ODT by default. What you see is a bug in your Ubuntu distro. I think it's fixed now. Try updating your Ubuntu distribution.
Cheers Martin On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Yamaplos . <[email protected]> wrote: > I came upon this error trasferring a file from a kid's XO here in > Bolivia to my Ubuntu. I am not sure what system he had, since before > I got to open the file in my machine I updated his to os874. I will > try again tomorrow, hoping this old, old issue is no longer... > > My understanding is that the Write files were RTF misnamed as ODT. > However, I renamed this one to RTF and it didn't open at all. As ODT, > it does eventually open in LibreOffice (which says it "repairs" it, > whatever that means) > > hmmm... Can we have some kind of a standard? I imagine a file made in > Ubuntu will not work in the XO, which is no good, and viceversa. > "corrupt" is not a comforting word for any teacher. I wonder how much > worse this works within windoze, which is what teachers are given in > many places in their, ahem, mentally "corrupt" administrators realm. > > If we can't do good ODT, can we at least do decent RTF? or at least > the much easier and much more universal HTM? THAT would be rather > clever! Kids would produce web pages by default. > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
