Hi :) I didn't mean that Italo was wrong, just that it was possibly a bit geeky (and that wasn't a disadvantage because he put it so well).
Where MS might be updating their doc, xls etc formats at least they have hopefully stopped doing different versions for different versions of their program. It is Rtf that they have stopped developing. The newer DocX, XlsX etc seem to be very different. For anyone interested in reading up about the ISO definitions this link might help; http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html If you scroll to the very bottom of the page you see 4 different papers about OOXML (carefully named Office Open XML to avoid any confusion with the pre-existing Open Document Format). The OOXML standard has been through 3 revisions and those 4 documents amount to 6,764 pages = lets say over 6.5k. Apparently first put through in 2012. Apparently documents can fully comply with the format even if they contain chunks/blobs that do not conform! If you scroll back up by 1 page then the ODF (Open Document Format) is about half-way down. It's under 800 pages and has been an ISO since 2006. Apparently it was complete enough first time and has never needed to be revised. Documents must completely comply in order to be considered as complying at all. Regards from Tom :) On 10 August 2014 11:22, Owen Genat <[email protected]> wrote: > Owen Genat wrote > > The old MS Binary specifications last had an update of significance > > (change in technical nature) on 2014-04-30 (XLS) and 2012-01-20 (DOC and > > PPT). > > Oops. I am already out of date. The DOC and XLSB specifications had a major > update 2014-07-31. > > > > ----- > Best wishes, Owen. > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/What-version-tp4118061p4118458.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > 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
