I am a software developer and using LibreOffice (LO) on a Linux environment. But sometimes I have to deal with Word-users. In such a mixed working group I found out that Word doesn't "respect" the OpenDocument format.
I had a very(!) simple ODT file created with LO. Only text and headings created with style sheets (german: "Formatvorlage"). Open and re-save that file with word "destroy" the structure of the style sheets and something more. e.g. "heading 1-3" becomes just "heading". I am sure you know such problems. I want to understand why it is that way? I am not so deep in the topic and in the documents about that. But I think OpenDocument is a well documented and specified standard. Right? As I described I observed that Word doesn't fit to that standard. But Word lie to the user and offer to open and save OpenDocument files. Of course I know why Microsoft software behave like that - destroying open and free standards. The question is why is Microsoft allowed to use "OpenDocument" that way? Isn't there a juristic way to restrict that? And is the OD-standard really so wishy-washy that the behaviour I described is fitted by the standard? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
