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Subject: Re: [office] my requirements
Thomas, I can't speak for Florian and his rationale for his goals but I do have a comment on the round trip requirement: Thomas Zander wrote: >On Monday 19 March 2007 18:46, Thomas Zander wrote: > > >>Its good to hear what your requirements are >> >> > >Hmm, >sorry for my hasty email yesterday. It really came out all wrong. Please >allow me to retry; > >Florian; >I'm very happy to get to see your requirements. It makes talks a lot easier, >indeed. Now we can talk about goals :) > >Several of your requirements are probably based on goals you have for your >usage of ODF. And I'd like to ask you to make one more step; to not just >provide us with your requirements but also the rationale behind your >requirements. Or, in other words; your goals. > >The reason I ask this is because several of your requirements conflict with >requirements we are currently persuing, for KOffice, for example. >Prime example is R4. "100% roundtrip fidelity" >This requirement is counter to the arguments of having 2 ways of doing >something similar. Like taking a motorcycle or a car to work. Sure you can >use both to do the job, but there are advantages to both. Those advantages >are what makes them similar, but significantly different. >And due to that, you can not assume you can take the same route to work >independent of your choice of car over motorcycle. Just like converting from >text:list to numbered-paragraph will not transfer advantages from one to the >other. > > > Actually I read Florian's post to say: >R4. 100% roundtrip fidelity between text:list and text:numbered-paragraph === > >The current ODF specification states that ><quote> >A list in <text:list> representation could be converted into a list in <text:numbered-paragraph> representation and vice versa. ></quote> > In other words, ODF already posits this ability and all Florian is asking for is a specification for how that is to be done. And quite naturally it should be reversible or as Florian puts it grandly, "100% roundtrip fidelity." If KOffice wishes to do less than ODF authorizes that is of course its choice but I fail to see its relevance to Florian's request. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Patrick@Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
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