Re: [office] my requirements

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Thomas,

I can't speak for Florian and his rationale for his goals but I do have 
a comment on the round trip requirement:

Thomas Zander wrote:

>On Monday 19 March 2007 18:46, Thomas Zander wrote:
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>>Its good to hear what your requirements are
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>Hmm,
>sorry for my hasty email yesterday. It really came out all wrong.  Please 
>allow me to retry;
>
>Florian;
>I'm very happy to get to see your requirements. It makes talks a lot easier, 
>indeed.  Now we can talk about goals :)
>
>Several of your requirements are probably based on goals you have for your 
>usage of ODF.  And I'd like to ask you to make one more step; to not just 
>provide us with your requirements but also the rationale behind your 
>requirements. Or, in other words; your goals.
>
>The reason I ask this is because several of your requirements conflict with 
>requirements we are currently persuing, for KOffice, for example.
>Prime example is R4.  "100% roundtrip fidelity"
>This requirement is counter to the arguments of having 2 ways of doing 
>something similar.  Like taking a motorcycle or a car to work. Sure you can 
>use both to do the job, but there are advantages to both. Those advantages 
>are what makes them similar, but significantly different.
>And due to that, you can not assume you can take the same route to work 
>independent of your choice of car over motorcycle. Just like converting from 
>text:list to numbered-paragraph will not transfer advantages from one to the 
>other.
>
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Actually I read Florian's post to say:

>R4. 100% roundtrip fidelity between text:list and text:numbered-paragraph ===
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>The current ODF specification states that
><quote>
>A list in <text:list> representation could be converted into a list in <text:numbered-paragraph> representation and vice versa.
></quote>
>
In other words, ODF already posits this ability and all Florian is 
asking for is a specification for how that is to be done. And quite 
naturally it should be reversible or as Florian puts it grandly, "100% 
roundtrip fidelity."

If KOffice wishes to do less than ODF authorizes that is of course its 
choice but I fail to see its relevance to Florian's request.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
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