Moving to OpenOffice.org? (Was: [sca-assembly] Issue 238 proposalv2)

[Danny van der Rijn <dannyv@tibco.com>]

I can't believe you put me in a position of having to look up what the 
3rd 'o' was, Anish.  I've been away from what was then known as OO for a 
while, and didn't have good experiences with it, but would listen to 
others that say it has improved.  But mostly I'm just responding to 
change the subject line.

Danny
who is so used to ignoring his overlords, that they now refuse to 
acknowledge that he exists.

On 11/19/2010 11:34 AM, Anish Karmarkar wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 8:55 AM, Eric Johnson wrote:
>>   Hi Mike,
>>
>> On 11/19/10 1:59 AM, Mike Edwards wrote:
>>>
>>> *One thing to consider seriously for the 1.2 version of the specs is
>>> whether to do a*
>>> *complete migration to OpenOffice from Word format. I note that most
>>> of the newer*
>>> *spec documents are in OO format.*
>>>
>>> *The time to make such a significant change is at the point where we
>>> rebase 1.2 on*
>>> *the final 1.1 spec.*
>>>
>>> *I'd appreciate knowing everyone's view on this. I personally find OO
>>> easier to handle*
>>> *today than Word, but I realize that may not be the general view.*
>>
>> +1.
>>
>> As I move between Mac, Windows and Linux, OpenOffice has the extreme
>> advantage of being consistent across platforms.
>>
>> I'm sure folks from Oracle will object to switching to it, though ;-) .
>>
>
> Usually, I have to wait for my corporate overlords to let me know what 
> position they would like me to espouse, before I comment. But in this 
> case I'll go out on a limb here, deep down in the salt mines:
>
> If/when we do this, we'll have to consistently use OOo, as there are 
> sometimes suble differences in how OOo and Word (with the plugin) 
> displays the doc (at least it did in the past). I'm fine with a switch 
> as I'm comfortable editing with either tool. It'll involve some 
> editorial work in getting a few things right (for example the 
> normative statement color highlighting). I would also want to check 
> that the HTML generated from OOo is not too different from the 
> generated PDF -- perhaps the OASIS folks have already verified this. 
> In the past (and things have improved significantly since the 2.0 
> release), the HTML generation was not acceptable.
>
> Summary: I'm fine with the switch, if OOo can generate decent HTML.
>
> -Anish
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