RE: [office-formula] Portable document issues

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

Sounds good.

And many implementation-dependent and implementation-defined cases may then
yield to deferral under ambient properties when we look into that more
closely.  Then the OpenFormula-hosting specification can determine what is
implementation-dependent/-defined for its particular needs.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Durusau [mailto:patrick@durusau.net] 
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 12:29
To: office-formula@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [office-formula] Portable document issues

Greetings!

After going over all the "portable" document comments, the most common 
remark was that implementation-dependent or implementation-defined 
features aren't very portable.

OK, but we can say that one time, hopefully when we define 
implementation-dependent versus implementation defined and simply drop 
most of the "portable" remarks elsewhere.

That is once we have said something in the text is 
implementation-dependent or implementation-defined, it is by definition 
not very portable.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Patrick

PS: The notion of simply saying implementation-dependent/defined as a 
sign of non-portability was actually suggested by Rob Weir in an earlier 
discussion. Looking at all of the cases left very few paragraphs where 
that wasn't the concern for portability.

-- 
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)


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