Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:10:10 +0100, Lisi wrote:

> On Sunday 24 April 2011 18:34:55 Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:28:29 +0100, Lisi wrote:
>> > On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote:
>> >> > MS invented docx.  Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation
>> >> > Planning Meeting.  Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at
>> >> > 3:00." he can send an archive containing a hierarchy of a dozen or
>> >> > so files. Several kB in total.
>> > Why not .txt?  Even simpler, will retain all the information and be
>> > readable with almost anything.
>>
>> How about images and text formatting? With plain text files you miss
>> them (html should be a nice alternative but again, images have to be
>> enclosed apart) ;-)
> 
> There are no images in the text above.  it is just that - simple text.
> "Summer Vacation Planning Meeting.  Bring your coffee mug to the
> boardroom at 3:00."

Oh, well, if you put it that way... there is no need to make a document 
for that, just send an e-mail or upload a new twitter ;-)

> I was not referring to a putative complicated document, but to this
> specific example, and others like it.  For this specific example .pdf is
> overkill.

I took the above just as a sarcastic example... I don't think the user is 
named "John Doe" :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón