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replace "OpenOffice" with "OpenDocument" #1336

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@stragu stragu commented Sep 17, 2024

ODF (and its subset ODT) is not tied to one software project. And in any case, Apache OpenOffice is rather on life support, whereas most contributions to the OpenOffice.org descendants are currently going to LibreOffice.
MS Office also opens ODF and recently announced support for version 1.4.

ODF is not tied to one software project. And in any case, Apache OpenOffice is rather on life support, whereas most contributions to the OpenOffice.org descendants are currently going to LibreOffice.
MS Office also opens ODF and recently announced support for version 1.4.
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stragu commented Sep 17, 2024

I wasn't sure how to squash on the GitHub website, I assume it can be done on your side?

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cderv commented Sep 17, 2024

Hi !

Thanks for the suggestion.

I believe we inherit this wording from Pandoc itself. Pandoc differentiate between

  • --to opendocument
  • --to odt

And they mention OpenOffice Text Document in their links are https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--to

I am not sure what OpenDocument for Pandoc really targets as the links from their docs point to nowhere:
https://opendocument.xml.org/ and odt points to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

I believe --to opendocument is to write the XML "flat" (.fodt extension) while --to odt the file format .odt.

Both exist and maybe we should use those terms odt and flat odt

Anyhow, I agree with the change here.

@cscheid @cwickham what do you think about this ?

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cscheid commented Sep 17, 2024

We should keep the existing documentation. It's not perfectly accurate, but its inconsistencies are minor and follow Pandoc. That's better than the alternative. Notice, also, that we say "MS Word" even though other programs produce/consume .docx.

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