Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: (Sumatra PDF viewer) -- " I prefer Okular." -- viewer for .doc files? Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 06:05:03 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:05:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8c464b488a5de1d3dcb3d85cc58e2c0d"; logging-data="2246378"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19cPvpmQMN1Tv4sFXp4FxTvG+2BLpZuZPUaoJVpuZR3qQ==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S7am7y/bvD5MmYfoRCy/uqNgpSM= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 07:55 this Wednesday (GMT): > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:25:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote: > >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote at 05:55 this Tuesday (GMT): >> >>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 02:40:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote: >>> >>>> And they made it even more confusing by introducing .docx too. >>> >>> That’s a whole new format, which Microsoft has tried to railroad >>> through as some kind of “international standard” (ISO 29500). Except >>> the specification document is so opaque and incomprehensible, nobody >>> can be sure when they’ve implemented it properly or not. So >>> “compatibility” falls back to meaning “compatible with Microsoft >>> Office”, not “conforming to an official spec”. >>> >>> Stick to ODF, aka ISO 26300. It’s only a small fraction of the >>> complexity, and much easier to get right. >> >> Why not just use .rtf or .md? Those are way more universal imo. > > You mean Markdown? Sure, it’s nice and simple, but has no stylesheets. Stylesheets? -- user is generated from /dev/urandom