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in principle there are good ideas behind this proposed "only accept Open Document file formats idea", wouldn't it be constructive for this article to mention th
by carterschonwald 17y ago
in principle there are good ideas behind this proposed "only accept Open Document file formats idea", wouldn't it be constructive for this article to mention that microsoft word actually supports that format? (at least according to wikipedia).
Personally all my writing etc for anything nontrivial is via latex, a file format which happily enough is human readable (and much moreso than word or odf or whatever), and I can be reasonably confident that if i want to regenerate any documents i have in 20+ years, these files will likely be still machine readable barring cosmic radiation flipping bits or computers switching from binary to ternary representations etc.
In all seriousness though, for all but the simplest of documents, theres a lot of ways that meaning formatting/data can be lost when two different word processors are respectively creating and reading a document file, and thats even ignoring how with a lot of these programs the formatting for a document will be rejiggered if these two computer have different default printers!!
- nzmsv 17y agoI use latex for pretty much all documents too, including presentations. Everyone can open PDFs, and they print nicely. However, I have not been able to explain why I prefer latex to anyone so far. People just see this weird format that requires an extra step to get a "proper-looking" document, and claim not to see the difference in typography between LaTeX and Word. And no, I don't go around preaching latex to word users - they ask me first :)