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Subject: Re: [sca-bindings] ODF or Word format for the OASIS Specs??
Eric Johnson wrote: > Simon Nash wrote: >> As I understand it, this would require us all to change from Word >> to OO3 when making edits for proposed issue resolution text. Having >> recently made the change from Word 2003 to Word 2007, I'm not very >> keen to change again. > Well, not *all* of us would have to switch. :-) >> >> If others prefer to make edits using OO3 (for similar reasons to >> mine), I wonder if we could allow both formats for issue proposals >> while retaining .doc for TC working drafts and committee drafts. > I've run into at least one problem where round-trips between ODF and DOC > don't quite work with our documents. (Line numbers are just one > example.) I'd want to test more before assuming that we can use both. > If you don't update the table of contents properly before converting to > ODF, OpenOffice might mangle the links. > > Tests I've been doing just now show that once saved as an ODT file, > OpenOffice doesn't show line numbers automatically upon reopening, even > though the option is turned on. Could be that this is a bug in OO 3.0.0 > which is fixed in 3.0.1 - I'd need to test. > We had an example of this kind of problem on today's Bindings call where section numbers were different in OO and Word. I suspect that having some people view a document in OO with others viewing it in Word is going to cause some problems. So I was suggesting that people could use whichever format they prefer for authoring, but people viewing it would use the same software as the author used. > Even though I'd be happier if we switched, I do recommend some caution here. > > OO does a *much* better job of generating PDFs. > I'm intrigued by this. I never had any problems doing this with Word+Acrobat. Is this the solution to the problem... everybody posts PDFs? Simon > -Eric. >> Isn't it easy to solve the line numbering problem by publishing >> PDF versions together with .doc/.odt versions for all documents >> uploaded to the OASIS respository? >> >> Simon >> >> 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. >>> IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain. >>> Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014 Mobile: +44-7802-467431 Email: >>> mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> / >>> / >>> >>> /Unless stated otherwise above: >>> IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with >>> number 741598. >>> Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire >>> PO6 3AU/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >> generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: >> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php > > >
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