RE: [office-comment] Describing legacy information

["Wouter van Vugt" <wouter@code-counsel.net>]

As I am not the creator of Open Office or Lotus Symphony, I can never
give guarantees on which things are not defined. However, even a newbie
such as myself can find settings such as UseOldPrinterMetrics. 

Code Counsel
Sharing Knowledge with Passion
wouter@code-counsel.net


-----Original Message-----
From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: donderdag 18 juni 2009 22:14
To: office-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [office-comment] Describing legacy information

Do you have a list of these settings?

-Rob

"Wouter van Vugt" <wouter@code-counsel.net> wrote on 06/18/2009 08:41:48

PM:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The current version of the ODF specification currently does not 
> describe legacy settings. There are a variety of settings that Open 
> Office persists into the file which are not adequately defined 
> within ODF. While one may argue that these settings are specific to 
> Open Office, the existence of these settings hinder interoperability
> unless properly defined. Similar to how Open XML was improved 
> through full disclosure of legacy data, ODF would also improve when 
> doing the same. Instead of defining these settings directly in the 
> specification I propose to add a conformance clause mandating that 
> all settings are adequately described in whatever document we deem 
> fit for it. This is the only way to ensure that not only legacy 
> document created with Open Office can be handled in the future, but 
> those of all ODF implementing applications. The very least is a 
> requirement for Open Office to disclose the information being the 
> originator of the spec.
> 


-- 
This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the
OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC.

In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and
to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required
before posting.

Subscribe: office-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org
Unsubscribe: office-comment-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org
List help: office-comment-help@lists.oasis-open.org
List archive: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/
Feedback License: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf
List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
Committee:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office