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The home page says: «SoftMaker Office Professional 2026, the new version with a permanent license, will be released in a few weeks.» This may be due to the fact most of the new features present on NX are AI related. I would hope they are adding something else to make it attractive to buy, otherwise ...

It is true that even different versions of MS Word are not entirely consistent in this respect. It is also true that using a full-fledged DTP program to prepare print publications will produce better results. However, just for a practical solution to the problem: If the manuscript's content is ...

Various considerations:

1. The version of DOCX, that is used by MS Word is "transitional", this means that it differs from the OOXML standard in witch is based off and that, in itself, is considered a mess. In this case "transitional" means that it makes uses of non-standard extensions/add-ons of ...

Re the "pointlessness" of tmdx... I didn't really mean to suggest it had no value in itself, but you yourselves don't make a point of that value when you describe docx as the native file format, which I've long taken to imply that it was pretty much the same as tmdx. It would be useful to know ...

Updating to ODF 1.4 would indeed bring feature parity. Is important to mention that, according to Wikipedia 1.0 specification is from 2005, 21 years ago while 1.3 from 2021 and 1.4 from 2025.

As I said, this feature could have been added after the original 1.0 specification. There have been 4 minor revisions to the ODF standard since, it could be that this feature was added later. I do not know for sure, but would explain as to why it does not work on TextMaker, since it only supports t ...

According to LibreOffice pressing Shift+F5 is only needed IF the creator of the document left the document author field empty. This seems to be a quirk of LibreOffice, not of ODT itself.
Either way, TextMaker fills the author field itself, so there shouldn't be a problem there.

The ODT format does not include a standardized mechanism for storing cursor position across applications, so this is a limitation of the file format itself rather than of TextMaker. You can verify this independently: open any ODT file in LibreOffice, place your cursor in the middle of the ...

I have been asking for years for a better ODF support. I have reported several issues when handling ODT files, some of this issues has been fixed, others have not. I am glad someone else is now interested on this. One of the issues ODT has in TextMaker is that what it gets generated in TextMaker ...

I haven't tried the epub exported on the beta. To my acknowledgment no changes have been made to it.

Last time I tried was in the 2024 version and I found that part of the issue was that TM uses the old epub2 specification instead of the cleaner epub3. I also found that the way TM splits chapters ...

The changes in beta10 seems to fix the problem, so far.

Check /usr/share/icons and make sure the icons for SMO are there, at least in the the hicolors folder. If in any of the subfolders can be found, hence the problem because hicolor is the backfall icon theme (This means: If the icon theme you use does not have an icon, it searches for it in hicolor ...

I tried again with a fresh generated file with the exact same text and styles as the file provided in my original post for the 2024 version and still, TM 2026 beta in unable to produce ODT files that are considered valid. Is there any progress from the team?

I don't know if given the fact of the new features added to comments, in witch comments can be marked as solved and can be answered too this would be the best approach, but I'll wait for the next beta and see if your solution is better than it seems to be.

Behaviour has improved, but the problem still remains. Now the comments pane can fit about 32 comments per page. But if fore some reason you have more than that, we go back to the same initial problem. Sure... it may not be common, but there are cases, maybe quite rare) when this happens and you may ...