RE: [sca-bindings] ODF or Word format for the OASIS Specs??

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

I would disagree with the OO -> PDF opinion below. If anyone would like to
see samples of how the PDF generated from OO differs from the ODF spec,
there are numerous occurrences in the docs.oasis-open.org repository.

Mary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Nash [mailto:oasis@cjnash.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:51 PM
> To: OASIS Bindings
> Subject: Re: [sca-bindings] ODF or Word format for the OASIS Specs??
> 
> Eric Johnson wrote:
> > Simon Nash wrote:
> >> As I understand it, this would require us all to change from Word
> >> to OO3 when making edits for proposed issue resolution text.  Having
> >> recently made the change from Word 2003 to Word 2007, I'm not very
> >> keen to change again.
> > Well, not *all* of us would have to switch.  :-)
> >>
> >> If others prefer to make edits using OO3 (for similar reasons to
> >> mine), I wonder if we could allow both formats for issue proposals
> >> while retaining .doc for TC working drafts and committee drafts.
> > I've run into at least one problem where round-trips between ODF and
> DOC
> > don't quite work with our documents.  (Line numbers are just one
> > example.)  I'd want to test more before assuming that we can use
> both.
> > If you don't update the table of contents properly before converting
> to
> > ODF, OpenOffice might mangle the links.
> >
> > Tests I've been doing just now show that once saved as an ODT file,
> > OpenOffice doesn't show line numbers automatically upon reopening,
> even
> > though the option is turned on.  Could be that this is a bug in OO
> 3.0.0
> > which is fixed in 3.0.1 - I'd need to test.
> >
> We had an example of this kind of problem on today's Bindings call
> where section numbers were different in OO and Word.
> 
> I suspect that having some people view a document in OO with others
> viewing it in Word is going to cause some problems.  So I was
> suggesting that people could use whichever format they prefer for
> authoring, but people viewing it would use the same software as
> the author used.
> 
> > Even though I'd be happier if we switched, I do recommend some
> caution here.
> >
> > OO does a *much* better job of generating PDFs.
> >
> I'm intrigued by this.  I never had any problems doing this with
> Word+Acrobat.
> 
> Is this the solution to the problem... everybody posts PDFs?
> 
>    Simon
> 
> > -Eric.
> >> Isn't it easy to solve the line numbering problem by publishing
> >> PDF versions together with .doc/.odt versions for all documents
> >> uploaded to the OASIS respository?
> >>
> >>   Simon
> >>
> >> Mike Edwards wrote:
> >>> Folks,
> >>>
> >>> Following points made by Eric and by Anish, I did a little more
> >>> investigating of using Open Office for handling the SCA
> specifications.
> >>>
> >>> Eric is right in that, with a little work, it is possible to get
> the
> >>> line numbering sorted in Open Office so that it does basically
> >>> match the line numbering of the same document in Word format.
> >>>
> >>> One thing to be careful of is that Open Office only has the display
> >>> of changes in the form of showing the deleted words inline
> >>> - there is no option to display them in balloons on the side.  This
> >>> has the unfortunate effect of changing the line numbering of
> >>> the document when flipping between "display changes" mode and
> "final"
> >>> mode.
> >>>
> >>> I suspect that with Open Office 3, we could make a decision to move
> >>> from using Word format to using ODF format as the
> >>> basis for the SCA specifications.  It might be worth doing this
> even
> >>> at this late stage since it should enable us all to be
> >>> consistent when editing and viewing the files.  What do people
> think
> >>> about going in this direction?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yours,  Mike.
> >>>
> >>> Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
> >>> Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
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