Re: Sv: Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files)

[Stefan Monnier]

> LibreOffice does quite good job of translating docx stuff you wrote about.

Last I checked, LibreOffice still wasn't able to edit a "docx" file
without losing significant formatting information in real-life cases.

And I don't mean it as a criticism of LibreOffice.
The "docx" format is not nearly as "documented" as you think it is.

As for the original problem: I'm pretty sure it'd be hard enough to
solve the problem for ODT documents, so I'd focus on that first (and
leave the compatibility with formats that are actively designed to be
hard to support (like docx) to other tools).


        Stefan