Good morning Christian, *, On Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 23:15 Christian Lohmaier wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Hackert > <thack...@nexgo.de> wrote: >> 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 legacy means old/end-of-life/outdated.
hm. But is it not doubled by the "pre" suffix? > 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). O.K. > 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. O.K: >> 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 Ah, O.K: Than I have interpreted this section completely wrong ... : ( > 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. Thanks for your explanation :) Now I only need to get it to a good translation in Pootle ... ;) Read you Thomas. -- NP: Righteous Pigs – Stress Related -- 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
