Alan L Tyree wrote: > I act as a consultant to a large city law firm who (of course) uses > MS. Since upgrading to SO 5.2 there has been no problem with > interchange of files. Diagrams and revisions all seem to come and go > with no problem.
I get lots of M$ Word files for the Royal Society of NSW Journal that I edit and typeset. I use SO5.2 but find that some tables don't get converted properly and often "smart quotes" will become ^W. I have to be particularly careful in editing not to miss anything. There are often other problems with largish Word docs, maybe because the Word format itself in those docs has problems after so much editing in Word. The conversion are a major headache for me and cost me much time. > It's not really an issue anymore. Yes it is. It's the 21st century, we have had word processors for yonks and there is still no stable open document exchange standard that is widely used (SGML could have been it but it aint). I NEED one, we all need one but consumers are too blinkered to see that they need to demand one. Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake Active caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. Safety Convenor, Australian Speleological Federation Owner, Speleonics (Australia) -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
