ODF

[seasidepb]

First, congratulations - you've made some changes that would seriously tempt me to upgrade (to the 2026 version - I'm a writer and I'm not interested in AI). I like the improvements in the colour options (always hated the red), the MS Office-like formatting box when you right click.. and the improvement in font rendering in Linux. I've always preferred the tabbed UI to the LibreOffice approach.
But ODT support still seems no better than it is in Word (and I'll never touch Word again). Formatting seems ok if you stay within Textmaker, but if you happen to edit a Textmaker ODT doc in LibreOffice and then reopen it in Textmaker, it messes up the headers in particular, as it has always done.
Also "return to last editing point" only works in docx and tmdx formats. Again this has always been the case. The ODS spreadsheet format isn't properly supported at all.
So in truth, using Softmaker Office means using MS Office file formats (because tmdx etc is a little pointless), and that seems a lost opportunity when here in Europe many administrations as well as individuals like me are seeking to limit our exposure to US Big Tech (and that's why I've moved to Linux). I realise that the waters have been muddied by EU-Office, which depends on OnlyOffice, itself a poor clone of MS Office, but you'd have hoped there'd be an opportunity for a European business like yourselves to step in with full support for open document formats.
But I do like what you've done, and I probably will upgrade...

[SuperTech]

Formatting seems ok if you stay within Textmaker, but if you happen to edit a Textmaker ODT doc in LibreOffice and then reopen it in Textmaker, it messes up the headers in particular, as it has always done.

Thank you for your feedback. Please share the sample file in which this issue occurs, after it has been edited first in TextMaker and then in LibreOffice, so that we can examine the differences on our side.

[seasidepb]

File attached. Hope this helps.

[lgsl]

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 when you save as ODT is not a valid ODT Strict document. Not even ODT 1.0 (because TM does not support the current 1.4 iteration). I pointed out this issue a few months back and haven't heard anything since. This is puzzling since the ODF format is, to my knowledge, far more simple than OOXML. I guess that the developers decided that adding more pointless AI features and emoji support was better idea than improving and updating their ODF support. I suppose from a marketing perspective it makes sense.
Still, lets keep pushing, eventually they will have to address the limitations of OTF in SMO. If not, well... there is always LibreOffice (despit its awful UI) and maybe Euro Office ups its game and switches to ODF as default. We will see...