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-----Original Message----- From: Farrukh Najmi [mailto:farrukh.najmi@sun.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:32 PM To: regrep@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [regrep] Format for our documents 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=20 cheap and mindless act. The current spec source in in Word. It has several problems due to=20 limitations in Word for large documents. Longer term I would like to=20 move away from Word. I was thinking of Open Office which is the basis=20 for the Open Office Format TC: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=3Doffice 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=20 available from: http://www.openoffice.org Also since it can open Word formats migration from Word to Open Office=20 would be relatively painless. What do people (and specialy Sally) think? --=20 Farrukh You may leave a Technical Committee at any time by visiting = http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/regrep/members/leave_workgro= up.php
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