Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source document

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:15:41 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Khimenko Victor wrote:

> > market.
>
> Wrong sample. Word document format is documented in MSDN.

Actually not. There is no any description of various
layout-implementation rules, MS Word does with that format, and AFAIK it's
not generalized enough to preserve document's general look if those are
changed.

> Yes, it's proprietary
> and such but since it's documented you could write converter without troubles...
> (Ok, almost without troubles -- even M$ own Word95<->Word97 convertor works
> horrible :-)

And this is why -- layout handling procedures changed between versions.
It's not TeX.

--
Alex

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