An odf-purists lists might be interesting though I am not sure how one discerns what it means to be odf-pure, as opposed to OpenOffice-pure. Maybe it is about OpenOffice purism, where use of the native ODF Open ... and Save As ... is handled. No opening by clicking on .doc/.docx files, etc.
I'd say the developers are certainly concerned with making that part work as well as possible. Not sure how you'd describe the list so fellow purists would know they were fellow purists. I shall watch with interest. - Dennis BAFFLEMENT I am baffled by this statement though: "Such a program would be rather useless without a free file format." Is not ODF a free format? Or is the assumption that Tim Deaton wants "everything MS Office 97 did" to include open and save as .doc, .xls, and .ppt? I guess that doesn't matter for the odf-purists list. The non-purists get to deal with it. I would think that availability of free-to-the-public specifications for [MS-DOC], [MS-XLS], [MS-PPT], [RTF] and some of the common features like [MS-OFFCRYPTO] would be handy for the non-purists. That those and more are covered by the Open Specification Promise will be sufficient reassurance for some of us, I think. -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Säger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:19 To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request Am 10.09.2011 18:37, Tim Deaton wrote: > Personally, I want LO to be able to do everything MS Office 97 did, and > mostly the way MS Office 97 did it - but that works well on current > operating systems. Such a program would be rather useless without a free file format. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
