On 11/15/2013 01:46 PM, jonathon wrote:
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> On 11/11/2013 05:13 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
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>> You go to the opening web page, http://www.libreoffice.org/, and LO
is promoting Version 4. Click download, and as of right now, you end up
downloading 4.1.3. But, you go for documentation, and it's for
On 11/11/2013 05:13 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> You go to the opening web page, http://www.libreoffice.org/, and LO is
> promoting Version 4. Click download, and as of right now, you end up
> downloading 4.1.3. But, you go for documentation, and it's for 4.0. Say
> what?!?!?
That is becaus
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:13:49 -0700
Ken Springer wrote:
> On 11/9/13 12:25 PM, Paul wrote:
> > Interesting article, and indeed it is true that the file format is
> > the most important aspect of the office suite debate, but I think
> > you are a little naive in your assumption that LO should stop
On 11/9/13 5:37 PM, M. Fioretti wrote:
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 14:06:44 PM -0800, Pedro wrote:
Two points:
1) LibreOffice only started embedding fonts in ODF files in version 4.1
(released in July 2013); MS Office files have had this ability for YEARS. In
my opinion ODF files are NOW starting to b
On 11/9/13 12:25 PM, Paul wrote:
Interesting article, and indeed it is true that the file format is the
most important aspect of the office suite debate, but I think you are a
little naive in your assumption that LO should stop doing any other
type of marketing.
From a programmer's perspective,
If everyone knows he's a troll why do so many bother responding in such
great lengths. Why bother feeding the troll. Everyone knows this, but
still so many feel obligated to defend. If you don't feed trolls, they
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On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 14:06 -0800, Pedro wrote: > Two points: > > 1)
LibreOffice only started embedding fonts in ODF files in version 4.1 >
(released in July 2013); MS Office files have had this ability for
YEARS. In > my opinion ODF files are NOW starting to be useful as an
editable file > exchan
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 14:21:43 PM -0800, Pedro wrote:
> The ONLY difference is...
can you generate MS Office documents automatically with just a few
lines of code as in http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/tag/odf-scripting ?
> I'm sorry to break this idealism about ODF's perfection...
I explicitly sa
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 00:38:21 AM +0200, Paul wrote:
> This is something we should be advocating (as loudly as possible,
> even), but we should be aware of the realities, and advocating it as
> a sane option, not trying to force it down peoples throats.
When a public administration demands that yo
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 14:06:44 PM -0800, Pedro wrote:
> Two points:
>
> 1) LibreOffice only started embedding fonts in ODF files in version 4.1
> (released in July 2013); MS Office files have had this ability for YEARS. In
> my opinion ODF files are NOW starting to be useful as an editable file
>
I believe that companies should use open formats, but at this point in
time I have never seen a company that has moved from the standard MSO
formats. This is likely because the majority has not changed to open
formats. Once more people adopt using open formats, then we will likely
see a change,
On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 14:06:44 -0800 (PST)
Pedro wrote:
> 2) Advocating ignoring MS files only makes sense on a personal basis.
> Por companies that is absurd. Maybe academia could start that
> movement but it will take time before it reaches the companies...
Actually, it makes lots of sense for com
Jay Lozier wrote
> Also, using ODF formats avoids the tweaking MS apparently does with
> their formats with each new release.
I disagree. ODF has the same problem. That is why LO has an option to save
in ODF 1.0/1.1 or 1.2 and even 1.2 extended.
ODF has EXACTLY the same problem that accuses DOCX
Two points:
1) LibreOffice only started embedding fonts in ODF files in version 4.1
(released in July 2013); MS Office files have had this ability for YEARS. In
my opinion ODF files are NOW starting to be useful as an editable file
exchange format.
2) Advocating ignoring MS files only makes sens
As far as I can gather, neither OASIS nor the ODF Technical Committee
require a reference implementation, so none has been named. I don't
know about the ISO standard, but I would assume this applies there too.
That said, OO.o/LO would be considered by most as the reference
implementation. As a "re
"Paul":
...to do
what some company (like Microsoft) thinks you should be able to do, and
only if you pay them very well, open source software believes that
everybody should be able to do whatever they want. That's the very
nature of Open Source: you have the source, change it if you need to.
Oh
"Paul":
Don't worry, you can safely ignore Urmas, he's a known troll around
these parts;
You're welcome to name a full reference implementation of ODF format not
using the OO.o/Staroffice code.
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Don't worry, you can safely ignore Urmas, he's a known troll around
these parts; his bias is strongly (and probably paid for by) MS.
On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:33:04 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
> "M. Fioretti":
>
> ...shall-we-waste-twelve-more-years-promoting-free-office-suites-instead-of-open-office-fo
"M. Fioretti":
...shall-we-waste-twelve-more-years-promoting-free-office-suites-instead-of-open-office-formats/
There's no such thing as 'open format'. Any format can only slavishly
describe its reference implementation. There is no reference implementation
for ODF, except a monstrous ***Offic
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