From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tomas Hlavaty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sv: Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:08:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87pn2vq7mx.fsf@logand.com> References: <0E591E8B-FD55-4829-8421-6F2C02AFD20C@mit.edu> <83eejenvy2.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1ne40e7.fsf@logand.com> <87wnx6x7vc.fsf@logand.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6083"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Stefan Monnier , arthur miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 22:09:44 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ktdIO-0001TD-CZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:09:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35548 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktdIN-0004id-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:09:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktdHQ-0004HN-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:08:44 -0500 Original-Received: from logand.com ([37.48.87.44]:34314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktdHP-0007gf-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:08:44 -0500 Original-Received: by logand.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 19B4C19F65B; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:08:41 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: emacs 26.3 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=37.48.87.44; envelope-from=tom@logand.com; helo=logand.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261917 Archived-At: On Fri 25 Dec 2020 at 16:08, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Last I checked, LibreOffice still wasn't able to edit a "docx" file > without losing significant formatting information in real-life cases. Exactly. And it will likely never be able to do that. One example: numbering restarts. ODT cannot do stuff DOCX can. Unless LibreOffice works towards some kind of superset of both formats, this will not work. > The "docx" format is not nearly as "documented" as you think it is. That's one important issue. There are other as well.