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I spy a caveat...
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Documents may be shared in other formats but only in response to a specific request from a user</li>
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Which to my nasty suspicious mind suggests that if a few large contractors "request" sticking to docx this could end up being the de facto format on large projects.
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<br /> However this is good news, and interesting to see that most of the comments are broadly supportive too.
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<b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:david C (caprenter@gmail.com)">david C (caprenter@gmail.com)</a>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 3, 2014 09:40 AM
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<b>To:</b>
<a href="mailto:bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>
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<b>Subject</b>: [Bradford] Uk Gov proposes to use only document formats based on Open Standards in future.
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</div> Have you seen this?
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<a href="http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-documents" target="_blank">http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-documents</a>
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<br /> They propose:
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<br /> Standards to be used:
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<br /> HTML 4.01 - ISO/IEC 15445:2000 Information technology - Document
<br /> description and processing languages - HyperText Markup Language
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<br /> HTML5
<br /> ODF 1.1 - ISO/IEC 26300: 2006/Amd 1: 2012 Open Document Format for
<br /> Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.1
<br /> ODF 1.2 - Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)
<br /> Version 1.2
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<br /> Other standards to be used:
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<br /> CSV
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<br /> TXT
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<br /> Nice.
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<br /> FSF Europe has a comment at:
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<a href="http://standards.data.gov.uk/comment/865#comment-865" target="_blank">http://standards.data.gov.uk/comment/865#comment-865</a>
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<br /> Cheers
<br /> David
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