Re: [office-formula] Shall we convert the material to ODF now?

+1

"David A. Wheeler" <>
wrote on 07/01/2006 08:52:28 PM:

> Originally we had planned to use the Wiki to create our document,
and

> then convert it late into OpenDocument.  However, after fiddling
with

> the Wiki that OASIS makes available to us, I'm thinking that it

> might be better to convert to ODF _now_, not later.

> 

> We can still use the Wiki for very early thoughts/work, and then

> convert THOSE pieces to ODF.  But the Wiki that OASIS makes available

> to us is less than ideal for us.  It doesn't record who made
the

> changes, it doesn't support math formulas (a real problem when

> writing a formula spec!), and it doesn't have run-time templates

> (making later conversion to ODF painful).  I've done some fiddling

> and found that it'll take time to convert existing available material

> to yet another Wiki format... which will have to be converted AGAIN

> on movement to ODF.  Ugh.  Since the final needs to be ODF,
let's just

> do it.  ODF is a very nice format, which obviously supports formulas

> and much else.

> 

> This affects Eike and Rob Weir most directly, but it indirectly

> affects all, so before going this way, I'd like to hear if anyone

> has problems with this.

> 

> The Wiki is not _disappearing_, so if a particular section is

> easier to edit on the Wiki first, and then transfer over, that'd be

> a fine way to work.

>