OASIS Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 17-Mar-03

[Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>]

MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
FEBRUARY, THE 17TH, 2003, 7PM GMT - 7:50PM GMT

Attendees
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Doug Alberg <doug.alberg@boeing.com>, Boeing
Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
Simon Davis <simond@naa.gov.au>, National Archive of Australia
Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
David Faure <faure@kde.org>
Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Arbortext
Jason Harrop <jharrop@speedlegal.com>, SpeedLegal
Paul Langille <paul.langille@corel.com>, Corel
Tom Magliery <Tom.Magliery@corel.com>, Corel
Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
Daniel Vogelheim <daniel.vogelheim@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems

Hartti Suomela <hartti.suomela@nokia.com>, Nokia (Observer)

Acceptance of Minutes of the March, the 10th meeting
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- The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.

Action Items
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- Daniel: Send link to updated TC spec/schemes maintained on OpenOffice.org
   - done
- Daniel: Suggest names for genre elements and attribute for master docs
   - done, contained in the spec
- Editors: suggest Relax-NG schema changes according to the meeting
decisions
    - in progress
Michael: Make proposal for list/numbered paragraphs
    - done, see list


Discussion of Work Package 3.2 Indices and text sections
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- The TC clarified that
   - text sections are not directly related to page breaks, i.e., a
     new text sections does not introduce a page break.
   - indices and table-of-contents are a special kind of sections that
     have a generated content.
- The TC unanimously agreed to keep the OpenOffice.org specification for 
text sections and indices.


Discussion of Work Package 3.3 Inside Paragraph
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- The TC started to discuss this topic, but postponed any decision to 
the next meeting, because it was not part of the agenda. Discussion 
points were
   - the requirement of a back tabulator. An example will be posted to
     the list by Paul Langille.
   - the difference between foot- and endnotes. An explanation will be
     posted to the list by Michael Brauer.
   - rubies. An explanation will be posted to the list by Daniel
     Vogelheim.


New Action Items
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- Paul Langille: post example for back tabulator
- Michael Brauer: post explanation of foot- and endnote differences.
- Daniel Vogelheim: post explanation of rubies.


Michael Brauer

OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair