Re: [chairs] need your comments on DocMgmt system requirements

[Eduardo Gutentag <Eduardo.Gutentag@Sun.COM>]

John DeCarlo wrote:
> I have been trying to use OpenOffice for all of my documents.
> 
> Its internal document format uses XML.
> 
> It has so far handled every Word document I have tried, except for one 
> key item:  line numbering.
> 
> Version 1.1 simply does not number the same way that Word does 
> (something about how headers and footers are numbered across pages, etc.).
> 

That's something that bothered me for a long time, until I discovered that
the same problem applies to different versions of Word itself and it's not
an OO specific issue...

> This has been the only show stopper for me, since conference call 
> discussions tend to refer to line numbers.
> 
> OTOH, beta versions have improved on this, though I would not recommend 
> using a beta.
> 
> Mason, Howard (UK) wrote:
> 
>> I note the debate on XML.
> 
> 

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