Hi :) Hmm, there are many reasons for preferring non-MS. Backwards compatibility is just 1 of the issues. Current compatibility with it's own current formats is another. A third is whether it's current formats work with non-MS products that do follow the OOXML ISO standard. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Steve Edmonds <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Cc: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013, 22:10 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is >missing > > > >On 2013-06-14 02:48, Maurice Batey wrote: >> Having installed Mageia-3 on a trial basis, I have come across an omission >> in its LO 4.0.3.3 that I have been using on Mageia-2's LO 3.5.7.2, namely >> 'Insert: Horizontal rule' >> >> The result is that any document prepared with 3.5.7.2 does not appear >> correctly under 4.0.3.3. >> 74 >> I see from: >> >> http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/14922/why-is-horizontal-line-broken-in-401/ >> >> that the omission is a deliberate change rather than accidental (although it >> seems >> the Help info still thinks otherwise...). >> >> Why on earth drop a feature that people are using? >> What is the rationale? >> >> Failing any other solution to my problem, is there any way I can copy the >> 3.5.7.2 'ruler' file over in to 4.0.3.3 so that the latter shows the lines >> properly? >> >For me the big issue is that MSO is flamed for poor backwards >compatibility with and support of its own file types, "will you be able >to open those MS files 10 years down the track", and now LO are heading >the same way. Surely if the horizontal rule is to be dropped as such >file compatibility can be maintained by converting to a drawn line >object, as could removing compatibility with earlier files from the LO >binary without moving the code to an optional plugin easily accessed >from the binary. >Steve > >-- >To unsubscribe 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 > > > -- To unsubscribe 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
