Re: [regrep] Format for our documents

[Duane Nickull <duane@yellowdragonsoft.com>]

Farrukh:

You make a great case and points for OO.  I have to agree and conclude 
that it is probably the only candidate based on the requirements.

I always felt it was a bit ironic that we used MS products to express a 
standard that MS never really embraced.  It is even funnier that we 
often use PPT format to talk about it.

/d



Farrukh Najmi wrote:

> Changed subject title to protect the innocent...
>
>
>> Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> BTW I like the idea of having HTML version of specs available 
>>> online. I propose we do this for our specs as well. Any objections?
>>
>>
>
>
> Duane Nickull wrote:
>
>> Docbook?
>
>
> Actually all I was thinking is to save the document as HTML. This is a 
> cheap and mindless act.
>
> The current spec source in in Word. It has several problems due to 
> limitations in Word for large documents. Longer term I would like to 
> move away from Word. I was thinking of Open Office which is the basis 
> for the Open Office Format TC:
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office
>
> Important criterea for choice of formats are:
>
> -Open format (ideally XML)
>
> -WYSIWYG Editors that are useable and reliable
>
> -Ideally freely available software
>
> Open Office meets each of the above requirements. Software is freely 
> available from:
>
>    http://www.openoffice.org
>
> Also since it can open Word formats migration from Word to Open Office 
> would be relatively painless.
>
> What do people (and specialy Sally) think?
>
>

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