Have a favorite document format?
What are some of your favorite Open Document formats? Do you use csv, ical, html and css, odt, xml, json, wav and flac regularly? What Free formats do you rely on? You can also use plain text files for a variety of functions from telling stories and taking notes to creating todo.txt or similar files or emacs org mode files. Have a favorite use for plain text files? Share it with us. Let's get a discussion going. We're counting down to celebrating Document Freedom Day on March 26, 2025. Please add to the conversation about Free and Open document formats on your favorite social media platforms. Tell us about your favorite formats. You can use the hashtag #DocumentFreedomDay2025 or #DFD2025.
Mmm... I really enjoy the simplicity of CSV when parsing open datasets. For commenting, I enjoy using MarkDown (though I'm not really sure that's an open standard - though it factually is) LibreOffice is my go-to for everything document related. I've got word that FreeCAD is looking to better document their file format so other CAD software can also implement that. Looking forward to see that format propagate... We're living in exciting times... Jurgen On 22/02/2025 15:41, LM wrote:
What are some of your favorite Open Document formats? Do you use csv, ical, html and css, odt, xml, json, wav and flac regularly? What Free formats do you rely on? You can also use plain text files for a variety of functions from telling stories and taking notes to creating todo.txt or similar files or emacs org mode files. Have a favorite use for plain text files? Share it with us. Let's get a discussion going. We're counting down to celebrating Document Freedom Day on March 26, 2025. Please add to the conversation about Free and Open document formats on your favorite social media platforms. Tell us about your favorite formats. You can use the hashtag #DocumentFreedomDay2025 or #DFD2025. _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss@mailman3.com To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave@mailman3.com
Hi All! I too appreciate a good CSV! Been using them for years as flat-file databases on small websites. Two of my favorite open formats are OGG and PNG. Ogg Vorbis (video) and Theora(audio) are terrific alternatives to other media container formats. Thanks to the foresight of Xiph.org we have these excellent public standards! My absolute favorite open document format is the Portable Network Graphics raster graphics file format. It is an all-purpose file format that is great for the web because it supports transparency, lossless compression, animation (APNG), and tons of colors. PNG also supports loading smaller, low-resolution versions of an image for low-bandwidth connections to the network. Good stuff! 🤗 Take Care Now, Zac On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation) < jurgen@digitalfreedomfoundation.org> wrote:
Mmm... I really enjoy the simplicity of CSV when parsing open datasets. For commenting, I enjoy using MarkDown (though I'm not really sure that's an open standard - though it factually is)
LibreOffice is my go-to for everything document related.
I've got word that FreeCAD is looking to better document their file format so other CAD software can also implement that. Looking forward to see that format propagate...
We're living in exciting times...
Jurgen
On 22/02/2025 15:41, LM wrote:
What are some of your favorite Open Document formats? Do you use csv, ical, html and css, odt, xml, json, wav and flac regularly? What Free formats do you rely on? You can also use plain text files for a variety of functions from telling stories and taking notes to creating todo.txt or similar files or emacs org mode files. Have a favorite use for plain text files? Share it with us. Let's get a discussion going. We're counting down to celebrating Document Freedom Day on March 26, 2025. Please add to the conversation about Free and Open document formats on your favorite social media platforms. Tell us about your favorite formats. You can use the hashtag #DocumentFreedomDay2025 or #DFD2025. _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss@mailman3.com To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave@mailman3.com
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Am 22.02.25 um 15:41 schrieb LM:
What are some of your favorite Open Document formats?
SVG, of course! :) (and Markdown, too, also pdf and ogg)
Do you use csv, ical, html and css, odt, xml, json, wav and flac regularly?
Except for flac... who doesn't? They are ubiquitous. You can't not use them when you use a web browser to look at the internet.
What Free formats do you rely on?
That list would transcend a length of email that anyone would want to read :-P
You can also use plain text files for a variety of functions from telling stories and taking notes to creating todo.txt or similar files or emacs org mode files. Have a favorite use for plain text files?
Plain text - mostly for noting down meter readings or other things I don't want to forget and keep for a while, with no need for any advanced formatting... Also for READMEs, LICENSE files and similar project files. Doesn't look like the Kielux team is going to participate in DFD this year, but I hope that those who do will succeed in raising awareness of the problems of closed formats. Thanks for starting the discussion! Maren
Share it with us. Let's get a discussion going. We're counting down to celebrating Document Freedom Day on March 26, 2025. Please add to the conversation about Free and Open document formats on your favorite social media platforms. Tell us about your favorite formats. You can use the hashtag #DocumentFreedomDay2025 or #DFD2025. _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss@mailman3.com To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave@mailman3.com
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