RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: HTML versions of CD-04

[Marc Goodner <mgoodner@microsoft.com>]

That sounds like something that could be improved in the TC process then. If odd HTML is expected from authoring in office suites then templates to alleviate that problem ought to be provided since HTML as an output format is required by OASIS.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:30 AM
To: 'Gilbert Pilz'; ws-rx-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: 'Mary McRae'
Subject: [ws-rx-editors] RE: HTML versions of CD-04

Hi Gil,

  The HTML templates are intended to be used in an HTML editor, such as XMetaL, rather than a word processing application. There are several TCs that actually author in HTML or XHTML. My guess is that you'd get odd behavior from following the same steps in MS Word. As the person who checks such things, I expect that any TC authoring in an office suite application would generate the HTML by using the built-in utilities. No comments about the quality of HTML produced by any of these applications are necessary :-)

Mary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilbert Pilz [mailto:Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:20 PM
> To: ws-rx-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: Mary McRae
> Subject: HTML versions of CD-04
>
> So here's a fun little experiment:
>
> 1.) Go to http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates and download "OASIS
> Specification Template v2-0.ott".
>
> 2.) From your desktop open the above template (this assumes you have
> OO 2.0 installed). This will create a new .odt document with
> appropriate boiler-plate etc. Scroll to the bottom of the document and
> notice how the appendix section titles are in 18-point, bold, blue
> Arial with the word "Appendix" pre-pended.
>
> 3.) Save this new document as HTML (for best results configure OO to
> render to HTML 3.2).
>
> 4.) Open the resulting HTML document with a browser and scroll to the
> bottom of the document. Notice how the appendix section numbers are in
> a normal-looking (not large, not bold,
> black) font without the word "Appendix".
>
> I've attached a copy of the HTML that is generated from the above
> process.
>
> I'm not saying that OASIS is responsible for OO's bugs. On the other
> hand, if we are going to be required to produce HTML, it would be
> helpful if the templates that we are provided with produced documents
> that rendered properly to HTML.
>
> - gp
>