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Subject: Re: [sca-bindings] ODF or Word format for the OASIS Specs??


Big +1 from me.

-Anish
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Mike Edwards wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Following points made by Eric and by Anish, I did a little more 
> investigating of using Open Office for handling the SCA specifications.
> 
> Eric is right in that, with a little work, it is possible to get the 
> line numbering sorted in Open Office so that it does basically
> match the line numbering of the same document in Word format.
> 
> One thing to be careful of is that Open Office only has the display of 
> changes in the form of showing the deleted words inline
> - there is no option to display them in balloons on the side.  This has 
> the unfortunate effect of changing the line numbering of
> the document when flipping between "display changes" mode and "final" mode.
> 
> I suspect that with Open Office 3, we could make a decision to move from 
> using Word format to using ODF format as the
> basis for the SCA specifications.  It might be worth doing this even at 
> this late stage since it should enable us all to be
> consistent when editing and viewing the files.  What do people think 
> about going in this direction?
> 
> 
> Yours,  Mike.
> 
> Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
> Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
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