Re: [Gramps-devel] ODT format - can we drop Abiword and KWord now?

[Eero T. <ee...@us...>]

Hi,

On Thursday 23 November 2006 23:21, Don Allingham wrote:
> It looks like OpenOffice 2 and AbiWord both fully support ODT
> (OpenDocument Text) format. I know that KWord is supposed to support
> this as well. Can someone verify this for me?
>
> If this is true, I would like to deprecate the custom AbiWord and KWord
> formats, and move to ODT only. Similarly, I would like to drop the .swx
> format for OpenOffice 1.x.
>
> Any issues with this?

Hm.  I think any distro on which Gramps 2.2 can run offers at least new
new enough versions of all of these programs that they can read ODT
(mine cannot run Gramps 2.2, but it's security support has been just
dropped so I will be upgrading :)).

But I guess you were more of asking whether the ODT support in those
programs is good enough for all Gramps reports?   As the different Gramps
report output backends are producing different looking output in the apps
already, IMHO at least any small problems in the apps' ODT support shouldn't
prevent deprecating their native format support.


	- Eero