What features of LO are non-ODFv1.2?

[Tor Lillqvist]

I wrote:
 > Surely any ODF implementation is free to *display* documents however it
> wishes, even if it would implement  (in the sense of "round-trip") the
> document exactly. The *rendering* is completely unspecified by ODF,
> isn't it?

Michael Stahl replied:
> rendering is quite constrained by the ODF spec

> also there are things that affect rendering that are not obvious, for
> example having a hyphenation extension for the document language
> installed or not (or just one that does hyphenation differently) may
> have an effect on the layout.

"may" have an effect is a serious understatement, surely? Especially
in languages with long compound words, like German and Finnish,
hyphenation choices will drastically affect how many lines some text
requires.

So maybe I should restate my claim then, and say that an ODF document
can specify things like column widths and inter-line distance quite
precisely, but in general the number of lines and thus vertical space
taken up by a paragraph of text is up to the rendering client.

This is not a critique of ODF, far from it. One should just not
misunderstand what is possible.

--tml