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Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:09:55 +0100
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Le Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:41:13 +0100, Ludovic Brenta  =

<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a =C3=A9crit:
> You are a proponent of Ada.  One of the selling points of the language=

> is that it is not only an official ISO standard but an open one at tha=
t.
> Microsoft formats are neither official ISO standards nor open.  In
> contrast:
True. The only exception to this is the ECMA-234 standard for the basic =
MS  =

Windows API.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-234.htm

Otherwise trying to get relevant documentation about the Word format is =
a  =

nightmare (and these documentations are mostly hackings, reverse  =

engineering and the like). And it is the same since long.

-- =

Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es=
t pas pour  =

les chiens.

=E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]