Yes, but we can laugh at our contacts who can't read the OpenDocument
documents we send them, and through them we get to ridicule their word
processor (M$ Word).
We can tell them that the UN has sponsored this document format, and
then tell them to upgrade their legacy word processor to something modern.
That alone I think is a reason worth working many hours for.
Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>> rtf (which displays differently
>> in different word
>> processors) and doc (which we can't be certain that
>> will look the same
>> in M$ Word)
>>
>
> You're wrong to assume that OpenDocument is any
> different. OpenDocument will also display differently
> in different word processors.
>
> And yes, OpenDocument is more common than AbiWord's
> format, but it's hardly universal. The only word
> processing format that's supported by nearly everyone
> is RTF, and that's likely to remain the case for quite
> some time.
>
> Best,
> Dom
>
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