> I've read Morten's blog entry on which he comments about the OASIS > OpenDocument standard, and appreciated it very much from start to end.
Thanks. (That would be http://blogs.gnome.org/view/mortenw/2005/06/16/0 for reference.) > Unfortunately, as it happens with the AbiWord filter, we do not have > the necessary resources to work on both OpenDocument Spreadsheet *and* > OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet support on Gnumeric. Here are your choices: * Use xls. Yes, it's binary, bloated ans awful, but it's there and no-one can afford to ignore it. You get interoperability. * Use OpenOffice's format. You get interoperability with OOo-calc, but probably only until such time they cut the link to this format. * Use OpenDocument. I believe this is a white elephant: there is no reference implementation to answer interpretation problems and the formulas level is not specified. On top of this, it is H-U-G-E. Prediction: everyone will implement their own quite small subset and interoperability will be very poor. > Last, but not least, I would like to know if there is someone > actively working on such plugin, so we can avoid duplicate work. Our > time frame to start is "immediately", meaning that we are already > working on this plugin, as I write this email. There is something in gnumeric/plugins/openoffice/. Morten _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
