On 18/12/12 10:57, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 18/12/12 10:39, Rainer M Krug a écrit : >>> Don't be lured by the fact that XML presents itself as the solution to all >>> problems. I do >>> not see how you could collaborate with co-authors using word, unless your >>> document is >>> horribly simple. >> >> Obviously not lossless or that straight forward - but I guess much easier >> then it is now. >> (even Libre Office an Word do not play that nicely together - even if I use >> only docx, I get >> formating issues when I get the file back. But these are things I can handle. >> >> And actually, most documents are horribly simple, and how it looks in word >> is irrelevant (no >> painting of formats necessary), as long as the *structure* is kept. Even >> images / tables >> could be skipped in word, as long as a placeholder is put there (or an >> image). > > You are in the category of users who know what to expect. I wanted to point > out that in > general, co-authors may not want to put up with collaborating on a document > that has weird > formatting (no image, bad tables...) just because you do not want to use word > :) > > And indeed, using libreoffice in a team of word aficionados is already > painful IMO.
Absolutely! That's why I now installed MS Office 2010 under wine - works nicely, but word and libreoffice *are* paifull...... Rainer > > JMarc >
