On 12/28/20 3:01 AM, Wen Lin via luv-talk wrote:
I suppose this is one example where the demise of a once-popular proprietary format is leading to the loss of some of humanity's historical records ...
The Web Assembly implementations of Flash should alleviate this problem to some degree. It's also a more generl problem of proprietary formats. Although most of my writing is in Markdown or LaTeX, there are some documents that (for reasons outside my control) were converted to Microsoft Word format along the way. My approach with storing those locally is to import them into LibreOffice, then export in the flat XML version of ODF, then commit the resulting file to the Git repository. I hope that's good enough for preservation. Of course, we can argue about whether Microsoft Word format is proprietary or not, given OOXML and Microsoft's relationship with the ISO.