Re: [office-formula] Question on scope

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Rob,

Thanks!

I had left a statement that we do define a syntax but axed the long 
description of what "applications" could do. Beyond our ken.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote on 01/18/2010 02:45:24 PM:
>
>   
>> One of those was a quick and dirty description of the scope of 
>>     
> OpenFormula.
>   
>> One of the current paragraphs in 1.1 says that OpenFormula does not 
>> define a user interface. It goes on to say that different applications 
>> have different syntax.
>>
>> OK, but don't we define a syntax? Granting that some application might 
>> make other choices but that seems like a user interface to me. Unless 
>> the term is being used in some manner I don't recognize.
>>
>> Anyway, thought I would call attention to it.
>>     
>
> There is the OpenFormula syntax, which we do define, and then there is the 
> syntax which the end user uses when entering and editing formulas in the 
> UI of a spreadsheet.  We do not define that, although applications will 
> typically expose a UI that uses a syntax that is trivially mappable to the 
> OpenFormula syntax.
>
> -Rob
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that
> generates this mail.  Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at:
> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php 
>
>
>   

-- 
Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)