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

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Fri 25 Dec 2020 at 16:08, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> Last I checked, LibreOffice still wasn't able to edit a "docx" file
> without losing significant formatting information in real-life cases.

Exactly.

And it will likely never be able to do that.

One example: numbering restarts.  ODT cannot do stuff DOCX can.  Unless
LibreOffice works towards some kind of superset of both formats, this
will not work.

> The "docx" format is not nearly as "documented" as you think it is.

That's one important issue.  There are other as well.