Terry Collins wrote:
> That is the benefit and if Corel can pull it off, then it will
> certainly be a big plus, but if their code follows past practise, they
.....
> I'm interested in a package that is going to be around for years, not
> the latest flavour of the month, which is where Linux seems to be
> heading . I've got documents on floppies that are 10 years old and
> similarly I'm going to need to know that current documents will be
> accessable in 10 years time for reprinting. Not locked into a format
> accessable only by an application that relies on a build composed of
> various old versions of software that are no longer around. If Corel
> looses, this is what may happen.
Thats one of the major reasons why I don't use Star Office or Corel. At
least Applix Ware's format is XML (I am told) which will still be
readable in 10 years time.
The advantage of a markup format such as LaTeX, XML, lout, Troff etc is
that your documents can always be read either by a person or by machine
so long as you can physically read the media.
LaTeX docs from the late 1970's can still be read today.
With the advent of XML there is the hope that in several years time
proprietary binary formats will disappear and all comapnies/orgs etc can
have their own WP formats in an XML markup
Mike
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