#ooxml

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-12-28

This may be considered #HotTakes by some, I consider these #based: (no ragebait inteded!)

If you have a problem with these, please kindly fuck off in silence!

This list is non-exhaustive...

2025-12-12

Les enseignants qui parlent encore d'#OpenOffice.

Ou qui veulent les devoirs sur documents au format #ODF ou #OOXML pour pouvoir faire des annotations « parce-qu'on ne peut pas le faire sur les #PDF ».

J'ai envie de pleurer devant tout cet #illectronisme.

2025-11-04

Format-specific output can be passed through from input to output via “raw blocks” and “raw inlines”. E.g., inserting a pagebreak in docx would work via “raw_attributes” in Markdown:

```{=openxml}
<w:p>
<w:r><w:br w:type="page"/></w:r>
</w:p>
```

Or to insert HTML from org mode:

@@html:<var>x</var>@@

#pandoc #markdown #ooxml #docx #org

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-10-27

@elduvelle Obviously, @libreoffice - hands down as #OpenOffice is essentially #Abandonware due to #Oracle's sabotage.

  • Ideally you'd convert the shitty #OOXML to #OpenDocument beforehand through #MicrosoftOffice as OOXML is a garbage format and #Office including #Office365 can handle .odt, .ods & .odp just fine whereas OOXML was specifically designed to subvert #ISO standards with a 15.000 page spec that is basically impossible to comply with for anyone but #Microsoft!

And in case you prefer the #RibbonUI (no idea why?) #LibreOffice has that available too!

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-09-28

@jackyan yeah...

And mind you I'm just a #sysadmin, but even I'd rather do #TSV files for tables, #markdown for #text than deal with #OOXML,

beonex.com/owl/

It's just so bad!

And mind you #IT should enable people to to their actual jobs and tasks not be a constant hinderance to the point that many folks nowadays go totally anachronistic amidst the state of it:

  • Composing music on paper and buying an overpriced digital typewriter because #PC|s get #Enshittified harder!
SparklingOutlaw🍉nogajun
2025-09-09

Hacker Newsの書き込みが面白い

Is OOXML Artifically Complex? | Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

uioLibre Techuiolibre
2025-09-08
SparklingOutlaw🍉nogajun
2025-09-07

TDFが、Microsoft Officeのファイル形式 OOXMLは競合を排除するために意図的に複雑化している!と書いたことへのツッコミ。
OOXMLが複雑なことは事実で、それが古いバイナリ形式のMS Officeファイルの仕様をそのままXMLに落とし込んだことが原因なことは、みんな知ってるけど、それが意図的に複雑化させたかというと半分半分な気がする。当時は、政治も絡んでいたしね。
ただ、自分としては、ODFもOOXMLも時代遅れすぎて両方とも嫌い。ていうかXML自体が複雑すぎるし全部捨てて今のWeb技術で作り直したい

Is OOXML Artifically Complex? - neverland: hsu.cy/2025/09/is-ooxml-artifi

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-08-23

@tk @orhun @ratatui_rs Let's just say that I'm just not gonna accept #proprietary garbage like #OOXML espechally since #OpenDocument does the same but better and people who use #MicrosoftOffice can export odt instead of docx and import it as well, so if anyone needs to change habits, it's those that use non-standard, proprietary formats!

  • Cuz I'm sick and tired to having to accomondate #TechIlliterates that are ignorant and don't even fake to give a damn.

#sarcasm

Peter N. M. Hansteenpitrh
2025-08-16
∂𑁨í 🕊 d2i@mk.phreedom.club
2025-07-19

#OpenDocument #Reader.
View
#OpenOffice and #LibreOffice #documents on the go. Now available for #Android and #iOS!

In addition to that, OpenDocument Reader aims to support various other file formats as well as possible:
- Portable Document Format (
#PDF)
- Archives:
#ZIP
- Images:
#JPG, #JPEG, #GIF, #PNG, #WEBP, #TIFF, #BMP, #SVG, etc
- Videos:
#MP4, #WEBM, etc
- Audio:
#MP3, #OGG, etc
- Text files:
#CSV, #TXT, #HTML, #RTF
- Microsoft Office (
#OOXML): Word (#DOC, #DOCX), Excel (#XLS, #XLSX), PowerPoint (#PPT, #PPTX)
- Apple iWork: Pages, Numbers, Keynote
- Libre Office and Open Office OpenDocument Format:
#ODF* (#ODT, #ODS, #ODP, #ODG)
- PostScript (
#EPS)
- AutoCAD (
#DXF)
- Photoshop (
#PSD)

https://opendocument.app/

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-07-05

@cd_newton @ligniform AFAICT Microsoft Office does auto-convert things toctheir shitty #OOXML format for no valid reason even if one sets it up to use #OpenDocument!

Martin Kraetkexporc@mstdn.social
2025-05-15

docx2tex is now 10 years old and has been released in version 1.10! Thank you for 14k downloads and the valuable feedback that helps to make this tool better. #texlatex #ooxml #oss
github.com/transpect/docx2tex/

Screenshot of a TeX document generated with docx2tex
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-02-26

@libreoffice I literally refuse to use or even accept #proprietary garbage like #OOXML for these reasons alone!

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-12-14

@thomas_mathoi naja, ich sehe das eher als Pseudo-Eingeständnis weil #Markdown der Standard für Enwickler*innen ist.

Dabei ist der Fortbestand von #OOXML das größere Problem!

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