Post #1932292
2025-02-13 11:10 UTC
Replies (3)
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@DrPen@mastodon.social 2025-02-13 11:32
@Seetee hey I'm not preaching the law! Whatever works for you. Maybe written work, word processing, but they're all clumsy. Text covers a lot of writing not only .txt files. Difficult though isn't it, when these words are subsumed into product branding.
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@jalager@mastodon.nu 2025-02-13 11:46
@Seetee @DrPen Yeah text document implies plain text. The wiki page for docx refers to the type of files in question as "word processing documents", which seems accurate but is a bit of a mouthful. I suppose a compromise is to contract it to (lower case) "word documents" though that of course does not stand the line particularly clearly against the Microsoft software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
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@craiglambie42@veganism.social 2025-02-13 16:13
@Seetee @DrPen maybe RTF? Rich text document. Looks a little bit too much like wtf, but I think it could work... I have been advocating for calling things what they are for years! It is not a hoover Brits everywhere 🤣