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If you "doubt" it, please provide a specific example of what you believe is inaccurate in the document rendering.
by Arainach 3y ago
If you "doubt" it, please provide a specific example of what you believe is inaccurate in the document rendering.
- morsch 3y agoAs it happens, we just had this discussion regarding a Word document from 1990: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39357709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39357709
- weinzierl 3y agoQuote from the article: "Converting this document from its original format was a bit of a victory for open source software. And a lesson in how hard document preservation is." So, opening this document was hard and that it finally worked was not because of Microsoft's alleged famous backwards compatibility- which is a myth in my book.
- weinzierl 3y agoI doubt it because, as I said, Word did not even render the document the same on two different installations back in the day. Contrary to LaTeX, there is really no way to know what "opens on your computer exactly as expected" even means. We do not know what the original author intended it to look like, because we do not know how the document looked like to them. As long as there is no retroactive interpretation, like it happened with RGB, for example, the "doubt it" will stand.