Is OpenOffice just spam

Is this person troll or what?

File format of OpenOffice.org is not "yet another text format". Its file format is in many ways superior to that unreadable binary crap you get from M$ Word and many other word processors and office suites. Anybody is free to implement it in their own software, because its specifications are freely available and royalty-free.

Plain text simply can not do everything. You can't have pictures or hyperlinks or other such fancier stuff in it. But it is true there is no need to use PDF, if you are writing just text and are not going to embed any pictures or other such things to it.

You should learn more about the PROPER usage of quotation marks, hyphens and dashes in your own native language. ", ' and - are just cheap plastic subsbreastutes for them. They should not be used, not even in (La)TeX, because it can do REAL minus, dashes, hyphens and quotation marks.

For example " (U+0022 QUOTATION MARK) is used in those 8-bit ISO-* -charactet sets, because there is no room for many different quotation marks. - (U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS) is used, because there is no room for all those hyphens, dashes and minus. You can't have more than 256 characters with those charsets. That is one reason to use Unicode charsets, especially UTF-8.

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