[libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Pedro
Congratulations to all. I believe that a solid open file format is extremely important. Am I correct to assume that ODF 1.2 is backward compatible? I.e. an old application will still be able to open a ODF 1.2 document? Dennis, one curiosity since you were one of the editors: I assume you

Re: [libreoffice-users] OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Good work there :)  Thanks for clarifying a few things for us there. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 1/10/11, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: From: Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) All releases of LibreOffice have used the 1.2 (Extended) by default.  I think OpenOffice was using it for quite a long time before that too.  I think the only program that still uses the older 1.1 or 1.0 formats is MS Office 2010.  I think Google-docs, KOffice, Calligra, AbiWord Gnumeric

[libreoffice-users] ODF backend for AsciiDoc

2011-10-01 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language that is designed to map to DocBook semantics, and as such, ideal for creating consistent documentation,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, Tom Davies wrote: All releases of LibreOffice have used the 1.2 (Extended) by default.  I think OpenOffice was using it for quite a long time before that too.  I think the only program that still uses the older 1.1 or 1.0 formats is MS Office 2010.  I think Google-docs,

Re: [libreoffice-users] OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Cor Nouws
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote (01-10-11 03:17) The OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification 01 has been successfully advanced to an OASIS Standard,http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201109/msg00010.html. Thanks for and congratulations with this good news! -- - Cor -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Cor Nouws
Pedro wrote (01-10-11 11:39) Am I correct to assume that ODF 1.2 is backward compatible? I.e. an old application will still be able to open a ODF 1.2 document? Yes. Of course, some content (from the new standard) may be wrong. -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe

[libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Pedro
Cor Nouws wrote: Pedro wrote (01-10-11 11:39) Am I correct to assume that ODF 1.2 is backward compatible? I.e. an old application will still be able to open a ODF 1.2 document? Yes. Of course, some content (from the new standard) may be wrong. Excellent! More Kudos to all that were

[libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread NoOp
On 10/01/2011 02:39 AM, Pedro wrote: Congratulations to all. I believe that a solid open file format is extremely important. Am I correct to assume that ODF 1.2 is backward compatible? I.e. an old application will still be able to open a ODF 1.2 document? Dennis, one curiosity since

[libreoffice-users] Re: ODF backend for AsciiDoc

2011-10-01 Thread NoOp
On 10/01/2011 04:56 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language that is designed to map to DocBook semantics, and as such,

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Well, many products have been producing documents identified as ODF 1.2 for some time. There are changes that came in during 2010 that, as far as I can tell, are not consistently handled yet. And the OpenFormula specification, a major part of ODF 1.2, will take some time to be fully

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Whether a down-level software version will even accept an ODF 1.2 document as if it is a down-level document and do the best it can is not something the ODF specifications address. It depends on the down-level product. It probably works with OpenOffice.org versions, but maybe not with other

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Q: Am I correct to assume that ODF 1.2 is backward compatible? I.e. an old application will still be able to open a ODF 1.2 document? A: It depends. There are provisions in ODF 1.2 that, if exercised in an ODF 1.2, make it unlikely that an ODF 1.1 consumer could handle it properly. Also, the

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Is there an overview of the changes to the standard between v1.1 and v1.2 ? It might be possible to have both an odt11 and odt12 backend with odt12 inheriting the bulk of odt11 and implementing just the differences. There are some Appendices in Part 1 and Part 3 that describe changes since

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
A while back, Microsoft offered a warranty with regard to ODF 1.2 support. I believe it is contingent on ISO standardization occurring. There is also an announcement that Microsoft would provide information on its ODF 1.2 support on the occasion of a Plugfest in Brussels this coming April.

[libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Pedro
Dennis, thank you for all the answers. Sincerely, I'm surprised that you used Writer to edit a 1200 pages document. I had to submit a 51 page report in Word and it was an absolute nightmare... (BTW opening the same document in LO 3.4.3 shows how far cross-compatibility still is :) ) Since ODF

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Pedro. I agree that it would be more useful to have the choice of ODF version be available in the Save As ... dialog. There could still be a default, of course, and there are nice ways to reflect that in the Save As ... also. That is not about the ODF specification of course. It sounds like a

[libreoffice-users] LO Writer 3.4.3 resizing jpg files and automatically adding a border

2011-10-01 Thread Jonathon Waterman
I have a .doc file that I am editing using both MS Word 2007 and LO Writer 3.4.3. Why? - because LO does not handle Section breaks and a few other things the same way MS Word does. Anyhow My problem is, after doing what needs to be done in MS Word, and then saving the file and opening it

[libreoffice-users] copy and paste zotero citations within writer document

2011-10-01 Thread Jason Paul Joines
I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 with Zotero 2.1.10, Zotero OpenOffice.org Integration 3.5b1 extension and FireFox 7.0.1 on Kubuntu 11.04. If I copy text containing citations and paste it within an existing document, the fields are lost so the citations just become plain text. Then if I

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Here's a post from a Microsoft participant on the ODF 1.2 announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dmahugh/archive/2011/10/01/oasis-odf-1-2-approved.aspx. There's nothing about releases and support of ODF versions though. -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton

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2011-10-01 Thread NoOp
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[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice auto resizing jpg files and adding borders

2011-10-01 Thread Jonathon Waterman
I have a .doc file that I am editing using both MS Word 2007 and LO Writer 3.4.3. Why? - because LO does not handle Section breaks and a few other things the same way MS Word does. Anyhow My problem is, after doing what needs to be done in MS Word, and then saving the file and opening it

[libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Deni Le 2011-09-30 21:17, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : The OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification 01 has been successfully advanced to an OASIS Standard,http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201109/msg00010.html. The final ballot results for approval of OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 is

Re: [libreoffice-users] copy and paste zotero citations within writer document

2011-10-01 Thread planas
Jason On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 15:51 -0500, Jason Paul Joines wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 with Zotero 2.1.10, Zotero OpenOffice.org Integration 3.5b1 extension and FireFox 7.0.1 on Kubuntu 11.04. If I copy text containing citations and paste it within an existing document,

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice auto resizing jpg files and adding borders

2011-10-01 Thread planas
On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 19:08 -0400, Jonathon Waterman wrote: I have a .doc file that I am editing using both MS Word 2007 and LO Writer 3.4.3. Why? - because LO does not handle Section breaks and a few other things the same way MS Word does. Anyhow My problem is, after doing what

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF backend for AsciiDoc

2011-10-01 Thread planas
Dag, On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 10:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 10/01/2011 04:56 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF backend for AsciiDoc

2011-10-01 Thread soumalya ray
dag, best of luck for your efforts On 2 October 2011 08:12, planas jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: Dag, On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 10:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 10/01/2011 04:56 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create an ODF

[libreoffice-users] Impress PowerPoint

2011-10-01 Thread Mr. Jack Nash III
All, Has anyone been able to get PowerPoint´s to display correctly in LibreOffice Impress? I am having a lot of trouble with .ppt and .pptx presentations, as they simply do not display well in LibreOffice. The background, the text, the formatting, is all messed up and distorted. Any assistance