Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 20 October 2003

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

MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
OCTOBER, THE 20TH, 2003, 3PM GMT – 4:00PM GMT

Attendees
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Doug Alberg <doug.alberg@boeing.com>, Boeing
Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>, Society of Biblical Literature
Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
David Faure <faure@kde.org>
Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Arbortext
Tom Magliery <Tom.Magliery@corel.com>, Corel
Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
Daniel Vogelheim <daniel.vogelheim@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems


Acceptance of Minutes of the October, the 13th 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
- Daniel Vogelheim, (Paul Langille): proposal for business charts
   - in progress
- David Faure: Clarify whether draw pages can be used for fixed page layouts
   - done, see
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200310/msg00023.html
- Michael Brauer: Proposal for merged foot-/endnote configuration
   - done, see
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200310/msg00022.html
- Michael Brauer: Add hint to TC's comment web form to FAQ
   - in progress


TC con call start time
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In US, Canada and Europe daylight saving times end at October the 26th. 
The TC agreed to move the con call's GMT start time to 4pm (and to leave 
the local times in US, Canada and Europe unchanged) for the meeting on 
October, the 27th. It further agreed to discuss on the TC's mailing list 
whether all con calls should start at that time, or whether the TC 
returns to a 4pm/7pm GMT biweekly schedule.


Discussion of Work Package 5.3 Style Properties
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The TC continued the discussion of fixed (or "DTP") page layouts based 
on David's proposal. It discussed whether a new "DTP" document type for 
fixed page layout is an option and whether the master page specification 
could be enhanced to support a certain page sequence without requiring a 
new document type or a "DTP" flag that changes the behavior of empty 
paragraphs. A page sequence based solution was considered to be most 
reasonable. Daniel Vogelheim will create a proposal for this.

With the exception of the "DTP" page layout issue, the TC agreed to keep 
to page specifications unchanged.

Discussion of Work Package 5.4 Special Styles
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The TC continued the discussion of footnote and endnote configurations. 
The TC agreed to clarify in the specification that presentation notes 
have to support text only. The TC also agreed to the proposal for a 
merged foot-/endnote configuration and to keep the rest of the 
foot-/endnote configuration unchanged.

The discussion of bibliography configurations has been moved to the next 
con call. Daniel Vogelheim will collect further details about the 
specification.

The TC continued the discussion of list and outline styles. The TC 
agreed to the proposal to add a "style:default-outline-level" attribute 
to paragraph styles (see 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200310/msg00018.html) and 
agreed to rename the <text:h> element's "text:level" attribute to 
"text:outline-level".

The TC continued the discussion of multiple outline styles that are used 
simultaneously in a document. A use case for this is for instance an 
appendix that uses a different numbering than the main document. It has 
been discussed whether this could be achieved with the current schema by 
adding the possibility to specify a regular numbering style in a 
heading's paragraph style. Michael Brauer will further investigate this.

New Action Items
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- Daniel Vogelheim: Proposal for page sequences
- Daniel Vogelheim: Collect information regarding bibliography
    configurations
- Michael Brauer: Investigate whether regular numberings can be
    applied to headings.


Michael Brauer

OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair