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Subject: Re: [office] Fw: [odf-adoption] sxw-odt comparison
On Monday 05 February 2007, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > I've been asked for a comparison between ODF and the legacy file format > of OpenOffice.org (the .sx* one). Do you have any resources that I could > use? Perhaps such a comparison does already exist? This question comes up now and then. Did anyone from this list keep a list while the changes were being made to the specification? My incomplete, out-of-date (and probably too technical) list has: List of changes that OASIS OpenDocument has compared to OO-1.1 (.sxw). === * adds a child under <office:body> to quickly recognize which type of application a document represents. * text:list replaces text:ordered-list and text:unordered-list * style:default-outline-level attribute for heading styles. * <draw:frame> element contains textbox/image/etc. + optional replacement image; this reduces some duplication. * page-master renamed to page-layout for clarity (and to avoid mixing with master-page) * style:properties was refined to style:paragraph-properties / style:text-properties / etc. * style display name != style name * and of course the change in the mimetype names List of changes that I proposed and were accepted: * a way to model copy-frames (frames with identical contents on multiple pages) * hyphenation bool as character property, for more control. * diagonal lines in table cells * line style for footnote separator * table templates * DTP mode using the draw:page element * text:numbered-paragraph element (an alternative to <text:list> which is better suited for independent numbered paragraphs) * number:denominator for fractions with a fixed denominator (spreadsheets) * <number:month number:possessive-form="true"> date formatting * more document statistics (sentence-count, syllable-count) * draw:regular-polygon * (after 1.0) border around a word or any run of text * (after 1.0) style:join-border (default: true, but a way to set it to false to avoid the joining). If everyone kept a list of the changes he suggested (and that were accepted), we should be able to create the full list of changes. -- David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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