Opendocument Puns

I was reading up on the FSF's active campaigns the other day and saw the OpenDocument Campaign which encourages people to spread the word about OpenDocument Format. For those who you can get to switch to LibreOffice, that's great. It's also possible to suggest it to people who need a free office suite. However, for people who need Microsoft Office for whatever reason then I've got another idea for you to suggest to them.

In the latest version of MS Office, if you press File in the top left, go to Options, press the Save tab in the pop up window you will then find a drop down asking which file format you'd like to use by default. If you switch this to OpenDocument Format and then press OK it will ask if you want to switch to this format across other Office apps, press yes.

While not the ideal solution of totally switching to LibreOffice this method means that new documents that the user creates and shares will be in ODF, it should open fine on other Microsoft Office installations and obviously LibreOffice installations. At the same time, if the user needs Microsoft Office for handling complex Microsoft document formats then they will still be able to open these in Microsoft Office.

I suggested the solution to one of my friends and now they have switch to ODF by default. While some will still be using proprietary software after following this, at least they'll be pumping out nicer documents which could lead to more people switching to LibreOffice over time as the switch seems less of a shock.

When saving a text document I have the option to save it as a OpenDocument Text (.odt) Document. Is this a file format that comes standard with all Macs? Because I had OpenOffice installed before and I'm suspicious of it leaving this file format behind, even though I uninstalled it with AppCleaner. If it came from OpenOffice, how can I remove this?

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I've just noticed that LibreOffice supports flat XML OpenDocument files. This appears to be a great way to manage OpenDocument files with version control systems such as Git.

Has anyone tried this out yet? If you have, how was the experience?

Im doing a text editor, ive implemented the open file button and the saveAs, but the save is giving me problems, i dont understand after debugging and findind the error, why my openDcoument does not change the default file name.

I've tryed everything, changing places the setFilename/(.. and nothing it doesnt automaticly save it when i press save because it does not found the path because the path doesnt exist because the open doesnt change the filename.

OpenDcoument class

package actionListeners;

imports...

import javax.swing.JFrame;

import graficos.TextFile;

public class OpenDocument implements ActionListener{

	private TextFile texto;
	public OpenDocument(TextFile textArea) {
		super();
		texto = textArea;
	}
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
		FileDialog windowForLoad;
		windowForLoad = new FileDialog(new JFrame(), "Choose file to open", FileDialog.LOAD);
		windowForLoad.setVisible(true);
		this.display(windowForLoad.getDirectory() + windowForLoad.getFile());
		
	}
	
	public void display(String fileName) {
		try {
			
			BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
			String line = reader.readLine();
			
			while (line != null) {
				this.texto.append(line);
				this.texto.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
				line = reader.readLine();
			}
			reader.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			System.exit(0);
		}
		this.texto.setFileName(fileName);
	}
}

Save class

package actionListeners;

imports...

import graficos.TextFile;

public class SaveAction implements ActionListener{

	private TextFile text;
	private String fileName;
	
	public SaveAction(TextFile textArea) {
		super();
		this.text = textArea;
		fileName = this.text.getFileName();
	}
	
	@Override
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
		Path path = Paths.get(this.fileName);
		System.out.println(this.fileName);
		if(Files.exists(path)) {
			this.save(this.fileName);
		}
		else {
			FileDialog fileChooser = new FileDialog(new JFrame(), "Select save file", FileDialog.SAVE );
			fileChooser.setVisible(true);
			this.save(fileChooser.getDirectory() + fileChooser.getFile());
			this.text.setFileName(fileChooser.getFile());
		}
		
	}
	
	public

I'm a huge supporter of FOSS, and so I would love to use ODF as opposed to OOXML, but I'm not sure if it's got the features I need. I'm not a hugely complex user, but I'm not exactly inexperienced, either. I guess I'd be more of an intermediate user?

Anyway, I did a fair share of research on my own, I assure you. Most of that stuff I looked at are listed at the bottom under Sources.

So, here's some info about me and how I'd use the stuff:

1. I write a lot, typically nonfiction but occasionally fiction.

2. I need endnote and footnote support.

3. I would prefer, though I do not need, Android support. Does WPS Office support it? Fully or partially? I've already contacted them, but I don't know how much info they may "conveniently" forget to leave out, you know, so I'm asking all of you in case you know something I should know. :)

4. What's the compatibility like with Word? What about Excel? PowerPoint? Access?

5. Can ODS files support formulæ?

6. SmartArt and graphs (in both Word and Excel)?

7. I don't really collaborate, so it's cool if the feature-set's not that great with that, but I do need to be able to reliably send the file to someone. This is almost certainly a must. I read in one of those Reddit threads cited below that an option could be to send a PDF, but that's a problem because you can't easily edit a PDF. So although it's a way I could work around compatibility shortcomings, it's not perfect and, thus, not exactly preferred. Doesn't have to be perfect. Just perfect enough. Lol.

8. Compatibility with popular extensions, such as those for LibreOffice, MS Office, and Google Docs/Sheets/Slides?

9. Compatibility with Google Docs? Sheets? Slides?

10. Are PowerPoint animations possible? If so, how compatible are they with LibreOffice Impress, MS PowerPoint, or Google Slides?

11. LibreOffice has compatibility with MediaWiki. If I wanted to back up a draft or whatever, could I? (Note: I've never used that feature before, so for all I know, backing up a draft or post or whatever may not even involve ODF filetypes, but just in case they did, and I ever decided one day I wanted to try it out, I'd like to know.)

12. Any other pros you can think of?

13. Any other cons you can think of?

14. Any other neutral points I should know of?

15. Chrome OS compatibility? (I don't use Google Drive, but I have a Chromebook so it'd be nice to be able to edit, or at the very least *