this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
155 points (98.7% liked)
LibreOffice
619 readers
1 users here now
LibreOffice is a powerful free and open source office suite, used by millions around the world.
- Ask and Answer
- LibreOffice
- LibreOffice Community, get involved
- The Document Foundation, TDF
- Matrix LibreOffice Space
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I know a lot of work has been done in these regards. But I want an era of simple documents, content over complicated styles.
Lot's of good markdown-isk ways to make documents. And anything complicated can be made that just reads those files and formats the way people want (for reports, journal papers and such). People will definitely try to have their styles, but separating them from content would save so much time.
Markdown is great for static documents, but quickly becomes a nightmare for merges or dynamic content.
Still, Microsoft’s Office Open XML is the opposite, convoluted, hard for both man and machine to parse, overly verbose for simple cases and downright arcane for complex ones.
If only there was some middle ground, Some kind of open document standard….