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.
>>>
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