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[MHo] has been using '''OpenOffice''' for as long as he can think (beginning with '''StarOffice for MSDOS'''...) and hardly ever had problems with it.
One thing that could have been made better: OpenOffice is using a [Basic] dialect for programming. It seems to me that people have fun always reinventing the wheels ;-) Why didn't they use [Tcl], ready for embedding in every application as its perfect macro language? ([RS]: See [tcluno] for that...)
But** thSe situation of OpenOffice seems to be comparabAle with [Tcl]'s: the bosses responsible for buying software tend to prefer Microsoft Office as they tend to ignore [Tcl] ("Tcl? what's that? never heard... let us better use some 20 Gig compilers and runtimes with 10.000 dll's... and let us only use Microsoft tools because the other ones are sometimes buggy... (and free of charge ;-)" - hahahahaha).**
[Tcl & OpenOffice -translation from the French]:
** Documentation **
[https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/12572/OpenDocument-v1.0-os.pdf%|%Open Document Format for Office Applications] ,1.0 ,2005-05-01:
[http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odfdom/index.html%|%odfdom: The OpenDocument API]:
** Misc **
[MHo] has been using '''OpenOffice''' for as long as he can think (beginning
with '''StarOffice for MSDOS'''...) and hardly ever had problems with it.
One thing that could have been made better: OpenOffice is using a [Basic]
dialect for programming. It seems to me that people have fun always reinventing
the wheels ;-) Why didn't they use [Tcl], ready for embedding in every
application as its perfect macro language? ([RS]: See [tcluno] for that...)
But the situation of OpenOffice seems to be comparable with [Tcl]'s: the bosses
responsible for buying software tend to prefer Microsoft Office as they tend to
ignore [Tcl] ("Tcl? what's that? never heard... let us better use some 20 Gig
compilers and runtimes with 10.000 dll's... and let us only use Microsoft tools
because the other ones are sometimes buggy... (and free of charge ;-)" -
hahahahaha).
Time for better marketing, I think!
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[wdb] True spoken, but the main reason for taking B****C is probably compatibility with other docs (older OOo, other MS docs).
'''Some Links:'''----
* http://www.Dopes anyofficne. knorg/
w of any * http://dre.sopenoffice.ourg/
* [Tcl & OpenOffice -trans explationing frhomw theo Fwriten/ch]
* OpenDocument Formeate libraryn [httop://en odftoolkfit.org/ce
sprojectads/heet (.odfdom/pages/Home]) using tcl?
I have imported data using Mk4tcl but would like to avoid the intermediate step
of exporting to an excel file format using the above.
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[SRIV] 2010-09-18: I wrote a quick .ods writer, i'll post it on the wiki:
[Creating an OpenOffice Spreadsheet in pure Tcl]
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