Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 25 August 2003

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

MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
AUGUST, THE 25TH, 2003, 3PM GMT – 4PM 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>
Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Arbortext
Paul Langille <paul.langille@corel.com>, Corel
Tom Magliery <Tom.Magliery@corel.com>, Corel
Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
Bernd Schuster <schuster@mskgmbh.com>, 1dok.org e.V., Observer


Acceptance of Minutes of the August, the 18th meeting
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- The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.

Action Items
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- Phil Boutros: create proposal for unifying change tracking in text and 
table documents
   - in progress
- Paul Langille: additional chart format comparisons
   - in progress
- Paul Langille,Daniel Vogelheim: proposal for business charts
   - in progress
- Michael Brauer: Proposal for including CSS2's @font-face into the 
OASIS Open Office specification.
   - done, see
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00032.html
- David Faure: Proposal for text decoration attributes based on CSS3
   - done, see
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00026.html
- Michael Brauer: Proposal for underlining/crossing-out based on 
characters or text rather than lines.
   - done, see
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00030.html
- Michael Brauer: Proposal for line styles for tab stop definitions.
   - done, see
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00030.html
- Michael Brauer: Proposal for enhanced style:*-asian/style:*-complex 
attributes.
   - done, see
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00031.html


Discussion of Work Package 5.3 Style Properties
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The TC continued the discussed of text formatting properties as 
described in section 3.10 of the OpenOffice.org XML specification.

The TC discussed the proposal for text decoration attributes based on 
CSS3 (see 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00026.html). It 
has been proposed that the specification should also allow to specify 
custom underline styles that are not covered by CSS3 so far. This could 
for instance achieved by combining the underline-type and 
underline-style into a single attribute that can take the combinations 
of the existing attribute values, but also the name of an underline 
style that is specified elsewhere in the document. This underline style 
may also include the underline-width. For the underline width, it has 
been discussed whether fixed length values should be specified for the 
values "thin", "medium" and "thick", and that a value like "bold" is 
missing that specifies a font height based underline width that is wider 
than an "auto" line in CSS3. Paul Langille will clarify the usage of 
styles for underlining on the TC's mailing list.

The TC unanimously agreed to replace the "fo:score-spaces" with the more 
specific attributes "text-underline-mode" and "text:line-through-mode".

The TC also unanimously agreed to enhance the specification for 
crossing-out with lines by crossing-out with characters as proposed in 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00030.html. 
However, the details for this have to be clarified after the 
specification for crossing-out itself has been agreed. The TC 
unanimously agreed to apply the extensions for crossing-out with 
characters also to underlining.

The TC didn't identify a requirement to add CSS3's overlining feature.

The TC further unanimously agreed to change the specification for 
<style:tab-stop> as proposed in 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00030.html, that 
is, to specify leader line styles and characters in the same way as 
underlining.

The TC additionally unanimously agreed to adopt CSS2's/SVG's font-face 
declaration as proposed in 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00032.html


Next Open Office XML Format TC Meeting
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- The TC agreed to cancel the meeting on September, the 1st. The next 
meeting will take place on September, the 8th.
- The TC meeting on September, the 8th and September, the 15th will be 
chaired by Daniel Vogelheim.


New Action Items
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- Paul Langille:  Clarify usage of styles for underlining.

Michael Brauer

OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair