Hi *, On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Hackert <thack...@nexgo.de> wrote: > Hello @ll, > sorry for bother you again, but in the above mentioned unit > > <quote> > With several legacy pre-ODF1.2 and ODF1.2-only consumers out there, > users wanted a more backward-compatible ODF 1.2 extended mode, that > uses stuff deprecated in 1.2, and/or is 'bug-compatible' to older > OpenOffice.org versions. Therefore the ODF 1.2 Extended (compat) > mode was introduced. > </quote> > > How is that paragraph meant to read? There are several users out > there, who uses old ODF versions (but what does "legacy" mean in > that context?)?
legacy means old/end-of-life/outdated. The meaning is that there on the one hand there a still quite a lot of people who use software that doesn't really support ODF 1.2 (legacy pre-ODF1.2 consumers), but on the other hand there is software that only reads ODF 1.2 documents (ODF1.2-only consumers). To bring those two together, a "compatible" mode has been added, that uses deprecated stuff (you should no longer use that stuff in ODF-1.2, but it does so nevertheless to allow pre-ODF1.2 software to read the file as intended by the author of the document), but as it is still ODF1.2 (although not a "clean" one), also the "ODF1.2-only" software is happy. > I seem to understand it that way, that there are > several users out there, who still use the old ODF file format, so > that the developers have "invented" the ODF 1.2 extended mode > (correct me, if I am wrong ... ;) ), so that these users can use it > with their older files (not sure, what "stuff depreacted" should > exactly means, though ... :( ). No it is about allowing old software to read newly created (or re-saved :-)) ODF 1.2 documents Old files are not affected at all. You need to open and save in the "ODF1.2 compat" format to change the document. So if you're only using current versions of LibreOffice, you don't need that compatibility format. But when you exchange/process documents with non-LibreOffice (and non-OpenOffice, or just ancient versions) software that doesn't understand ODF 1.2 format, then this format will (probably) help. ciao Christian -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
