[Gllug] Best format, for everyone, for saving documents.

[Tethys]

Xander Harkness writes:

>I would also
>have hoped that Abiword, Kword and Open Office could have formed a
>committee to agree to adhere to a common format.

They've started:

	http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office

Sadly, they've standardised on XML to ensure maximal bloat, but at
least it should result in a common interchangable format. So far,
though, they've got buy in from many plers, but mostly in the closed
source word processing market. The only open contributor is open office.

>In addition I do not think that any import .tex  files.

Not one of them has a layout engine that comes close to being able to
match TeX, so they couldn't match the quality anyway. The best app to
process .tex files is TeX.

Tet

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