Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Guy Waterval
+1 -- gw 2014-08-03 1:47 GMT+02:00 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak : > > I am often required to read and write DOCX files and I know others for > which this is a need. If I cannot accurately read / write DOCX files (or if > I suspect that it may not work correctly) then I use Word; I don't like it > wh

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I am often required to read and write DOCX files and I know others for which this is a need. If I cannot accurately read / write DOCX files (or if I suspect that it may not work correctly) then I use Word; I don't like it when I have to use Word. On 08/02/2014 10:24 AM, Alexandro Colorado wr

RE: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Below, Jan asks "Does the standard contain some rules about keeping private information ?" There are two cases for ODF 1.2. First there is the case for foreign elements/attributes/attribute values. This would be the case for some sort of extended material incorporated in the ODF document.

RE: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
In line with the sketch that Peter Kelley provides below, I am personally very sympathetic to the idea of having an internal model that can tolerate difference in format between input and output while preserving in the output everything from the input format it can, even by leaving markers that

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread jan i
On 2 August 2014 20:27, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > s below. > > > -Original Message- > From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2014 08:57 > To: dev > Subject: Re: OOXML > > On 2 August 2014 17:06, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > > > > > On 2014-08-02, at 10:24, Al

RE: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
s below. -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2014 08:57 To: dev Subject: Re: OOXML On 2 August 2014 17:06, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > > On 2014-08-02, at 10:24, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > > > The Support that is done is to receieve

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On 2 Aug 2014, at 9:24 pm, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > The Support that is done is to receieve OOXML not to produce them, the > discussion issue would be to support legacy formats like .doc or .xls. > > I still dont see a point to generate OOXML and most people dont care > as long as they can se

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread jan i
On 2 August 2014 17:06, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > > On 2014-08-02, at 10:24, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > > > The Support that is done is to receieve OOXML not to produce them, the > > discussion issue would be to support legacy formats like .doc or .xls. > > > > I still dont see a point to

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-08-02, at 10:24, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > The Support that is done is to receieve OOXML not to produce them, the > discussion issue would be to support legacy formats like .doc or .xls. > > I still dont see a point to generate OOXML and most people dont care > as long as they can

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Alexandro Colorado
The Support that is done is to receieve OOXML not to produce them, the discussion issue would be to support legacy formats like .doc or .xls. I still dont see a point to generate OOXML and most people dont care as long as they can send in office native formats. I never heard someone saying, pleas

Fwd: Funds for speaker to Central America Free Software event

2014-08-02 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Fwd from the marketing list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Alexandro Colorado Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:03:24 -0500 Subject: Funds for speaker to Central America Free Software event To: market...@openoffice.apache.org Hello, the ECSL (Central American Free Software Summit) send m

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On 1 Aug 2014, at 2:42 pm, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > For information: > http://www.themukt.com/2014/07/31/never-use-microsofts-ooxml-format/ An interesting article. This brings to mind a few issues I've been thinking about for a while: - I think the rather extreme anti-OOXML stance that some tak