Dennis On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 19:48 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> I agree. I think the question was asked better here, in terms of what the > consequences for user choice are. I also think the answer about Draw and > Impress is nicely concrete. > > The only way I can think of other than that is to see how those features show > up in the XML representation of the document. Then one might look to see if > there are any others in documents, but hitting one that way may be a > wild-goose chase. I agree, there should be a documented list somewhere. > > It would also be good to see how such features are ignored in other products > (older versions and newer) that were doubtless implemented in ignorance of > those features. (An easy thing to check would be to see what Word 2007 would > do with an .odt having comments in drawings. A standard action would be to > silently ignore the extension. I can try Symphony too.) > > This may be off-topic for [libreoffice-users] except understanding about the > interoperability impact of configuration options seems useful for those who > work with multiple products. > To me it is on topic basic it furthers understanding of the import/export problems with MS Office formats. This question comes up fairly often and being able to answer it more correctly helps > - Dennis > > PS: Won't your viewer wordwrap? I know that there are screwy HTML archive > pages that don't figure out when to use <p> instead of <pre>, so wordwrap is > disabled. (I would love a browser button that caused wordwrap to the current > width of the browser page.) > > My problem, as in all of these things, is then I have to do a setting like > that with everyone and not everyone likes the result of fixed line lengths > (especially when the level of quotation leads to a new line break). > > I'll consider it though. > > -----Original Message----- > From: NoOp [mailto:gl...@sbcglobal.net] > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 19:21 > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF 1.2 Approval and Extensions (was RE: > Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx f...) > > On 09/08/2011 06:12 PM, NoOp wrote: > > On 09/08/2011 05:05 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >> Wow, that's great information Gary! > >> > >> Thanks. So there is no reason to choose 1.2 (extended) unless one > >> is using the Draw and Impress commenting provision. And losing the > >> comments in other products that don't recognize the extension is > >> benign. > >> > >> It would be great to test that. > >> > >> - Dennis > > > > I'll see if I can get time to do some tests tomorrow. However, my > > guess is that we'll need to post on the dev list to get further > > details. > > Dennis, I checked and it's already been asked on the dev list: > > <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/6824> > (note: you will need to click on '(continue reading)' to expand the > responses... or just go over to the dev list and view the thread there. > > Still not sure if that answers /any/ questions as it seems that the > responses are as vague (to me) as the question. > > Gary > > ... > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
