Re: [Rexxtill-devel] Ad OOo/LO ... (Re: Document formats

[Sahananda (J. W. <sah...@wi...>]

Hi Rony,

you said

> ...as also MS Word supports the ODF format.)
>

I didn't know that, and when I tried it, it didn't work (page full of
control characters, tags etc.).
I found a link for an MS Office ODF plugin but it lead to a 'page not found'
error on the Oracle site.

I agree with you about Microsoft's inclination to change formats.
How about RTF?

Jon

On 2 May 2011 11:14, Rony G. Flatscher <Ron...@wu...> wrote:

>  Hi Jon,
>
>
> On 02.05.2011 10:47, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers wrote:
>
> this response was created using open office writer 3.3.0
>
> :)
>
>  I have been using open office for years. I even attempted at one point to
> automate it, but got my fingers so badly burned that I now leave that for
> young clever people.
>
> Well, now there would be plenty of nutshell-examples for OOo/LO in the
> "samples/OOo" directory of BSF4ooRexx, which should help healing some
> burns...
> :)
>
>
>  My preference is to use Word 2000. For all the MS bloating I know what to
> expect from it.
>
> If others strongly prefer Open Office then I will go with that.
>
> However, as Open Office can cope so well with Word Format, why not have the
> documents in Word format. Then everyone can use the Word Processor of their
> choice.
>
> That sounds fine. A littel "however" though: from past experience, I would
> not be surprised, if MS started to introduce new formats such that everyone
> else gets into troubles processing them correctly. Having said that, it
> should become visible quite quickly, once this happens, such that there
> would be time to switch then. (OTOH, it would be possible to standardize on
> a file format only, i.e. the ODF-format, and everyone else uses the word
> processor s/he see fit best, as also MS Word supports the ODF format.)
>
> Again, just wanted to make sure that everyone can realize that installing
> OOo/LO (and uninstalling it) is usually a breeze, easy to do, doing no harm.
>
> Regards,
>
> ---rony
>
>
>
>
> On 2 May 2011 08:54, Rony G. Flatscher <Ron...@wu...>wrote:
>
>> Jon, Mark et.al.
>>
>> why not just try out OpenOffice/LibreOffice then?
>>
>> It is a simple process of downloading it either from
>> <http://www.OpenOffice.org> <http://www.OpenOffice.org> or
>> <http://www.LibreOffice.org> <http://www.LibreOffice.org>. The package
>> is, depending on the operating system, between 150 to 170 MB. Something
>> rather small in todays world.
>>
>> To install it, it will take appr. two minutes, and it will install along
>> Word co-operatively and well. (To cleanly uninstall it is as easy and
>> quick.)
>>
>> This way you can put your toes into the water to test it, without the risk
>> of drowning...
>> :)
>>
>> Just open your Word document after the installation with OOo/LO to see how
>> the text gets rendered.
>>
>> Unlike MS Office, OOo/LO is available for all major platforms.
>>
>> Besides, if you then install BSF4ooRexx, you become able to
>> automate/script OpenOffice/LibreOffice.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> ---rony
>>
>>
>> On 02.05.2011 09:23, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I have word 2000.  I'm not sure if it can cope with 2007 docs, but if any
>> come along I think I can use ooo to convert them.  Might lose some advanced
>> features though.
>>
>> I interpret Bobs comment below as meaning open office compatible - I'm
>> sure if I got that wrong he will correct me.
>>
>> Let's give it a try with word 2007 and if it doesn't work out then
>> reformat the docs at that point.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On 1 May 2011 18:46, Robert Hamilton <bob...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> 'Open Office' makes  sense, to me.
>>>
>>> Bob Hamilton
>>>
>>>  On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers <
>>> sah...@wi...> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Mark has assigned himself the task of getting a design document started
>>>> (for which I am grateful - although our stocktake season  is now done and
>>>> dusted all the things that got neglected during it are clamouring for my
>>>> attention)
>>>>
>>>> He raises the question of what format the documents should be in.
>>>>
>>>> I think the principle here should be that it should be available to all,
>>>> but not suffer for lack of features for that, so (without wishing to start a
>>>> holy war) I think that there are 2 contenders.
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft Word & OpenOffice document
>>>>
>>>> I feel more comfortable with Word, but as Open Office can handle word
>>>> docs I am happy to go with Open Office.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have strong feelings about this?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
>>>
>
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