Hi Tom, all Let me be the "Devil's advocate" for a moment...
Tom wrote > MS keeps claiming that is what their new format is all about. They > claimed it with Rtf which they no longer develop which fits their pattern > for gradually dropping completely and they are claiming it again with > their DocX and all. RTF is plain text with format codes. So it is true that you can open it even in a text editor. Even if it is discontinued, it is not encrypted. Docx is exactly the same as ODT. A Zip container which stores objects such as images, formats and the actual text in a XML file. Tom wrote > Given that ODF 1.0 and 1.1 still open in LO, AOO and all the rest it looks > like ODF might achieve the promise, especially given that "contents" > written in Xml can be opened and read. The same applies to MS Office. You can always open previous MS files in a newer Office version. As explained above ODF follows the same logic as OOXML ;) In both cases you need to have some program that opens the zip container in order to have access to the XML file which contains the text. Cheers, Pedro -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Re-libreoffice-marketing-Good-Article-for-LibreOffice-tp4020703p4021203.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
