[Bug 27549] Abiword should save to OpenDocument by default

[Ryan Lortie]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/27549

Comment:
We may be able to get the best of both worlds here.

This is a strange and evil idea but bare with me here.  What if Abiword
were to encode the things that it cannot properly represent about its
internal state as metadata in the OpenDocument file.

In the case of exchanging documents with other OpenDocument word
processors the interoperability remains the same.  In the case of the
user using Abiword as their only word processor they get the lossless
properties that .abw would give them.

Of course this is evil because it can be seen as a proprietary extension
to an open format.  On the other hand, it's -very- nice because the user
can stop thinking about file formats and just treat their documents as
*documents* and not have to choose between saving for their own purposes
and saving for the purpose of sending to a friend.