RE: [sca-assembly] Issue 238 proposal v2

[Martin Chapman <MARTIN.CHAPMAN@ORACLE.COM>]

It's open source so go fix it :-)

> This is *not* a reflection on ODF, but on application implementation. I
> haven't found any other ODF implementation to be better as of yet. While the
> latest releases of OO are vastly improved, they still have a ways to go.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mary
> 
> 
> On Nov 19, 2010, at 2:34 PM, 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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