I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice for my final edits. I then sent the draft to Victor for him to review and ensure that all of the information is accurate. I sent it as an .odt file. Victor (unfortunately) uses a Mac. He tried to open it Pages. It didn’t open. Today I learned that Pages cannot open .odt files. I used LibreOffice to re-save it as .docx and he could open that. I am glad Apple is out there giving us more proprietary rich text processors with weird formats and restrictions. Thank you.
@naferrell Too late now, but:
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/install-howto/macos/
My friend was the one with the Mac. I honestly thought about forcing him to download LibreOffice on the spot but we needed to get the project done… so I took the less open source “export as docx” route (which, to be sure, I do for my actual job since they use Word).