Sometimes you have to call it defeat

[The Beez]

Hi 4tH-ers!

It's quite fun to make drivers for external formats. After RTF I wanted to make a FODT (LibreOffice) driver. There is very little documentation on the web on *minimal* FODT documents - but I found one. I was well on my way when I encountered the first hurdle - tables. Couldn't get it to work. Only to find that OpenOffice rejected the minimal document all together.

It's not a great loss, since RTF works fine on a large body of word processors. So there is no real need for an FODT driver other than to tickle my pride. So - I did the wise thing and abandoned it. I think I can do more functionally relevant stuff with my time.

A nice example is TCS, our tiny spreadsheet. I features a *lot* of different spreadsheet formats. Some more useful than others ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=KhDmPlvPTI4&u=/watch%3Fv%3DQYLjwDBZgqs%26feature%3Dem-upload_owner

Hans Bezemer