On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:13:22 +0000, Mark Finlay wrote:
>> > I agree wholeheartedly. I think the standardisation should be
> > around .sxw, which is half the size of a .doc for the equivalent
> > document, and a third the size of the old .sdw. I think at least
> > that kword and abiword should support that format, and eventually
> > use it as their default. I think it'll be great when we get some
> > kind of consolidation in the unix/linux world. And on document
> > formats is a good place to start.
http://xml.openoffice.org/standardisation/
the office_standards list covers this stuff. Its a little tricky to
resolve the big issues (think cats and the herding thereof, and every
project has already enough work to be doing and discussing with others
to make agreement is tedious stuff :-)), but progress is being made on
the ancillary formats.
> the various project's are trying their best - and it was hoped that the
> staroffice format could be made a standard - but because of various
> problems caused by sun the abiword team and others weren't able to use
> the format.
What problems ? Anyone can use the format, big documents and dtd's at
http://xml.openoffice.org/, did I miss something.
C.
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