On Friday 30 December 2005 1:57 am, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > I'm now officially a member of the OASIS OpenDocument TC. This has two > practical benefits: > Re: > > First, I intend to help resolve the current discussion about metadata > so that ODF will have state-of-art metadata support that we can > exploit. > One aspect that you might consider raising at the TC to support 'state-of-art metadata' is enhanced copy, cut and paste functions.
When you Include metadata in objects such as graphics, charts etc, it means that copy and paste functions (now) would copy the whole object and you have the metadata with the object as well. However, when cutting text from web pages, PDF Documents, or even other OpenOffice documents only the selected text and formating is copied - no metadata. I do not know if looked at this topic, it is complex but as I understand it that, when you copy text from, say a formated OOo writer page, the cut-past buffer stores the text in several formats, in OOo you get - plain text, formated text in RTF, formated in HTML, and OOo internal format. When you go to paste the text into another application the application decides which of the formats on offer is the prefered. In OOo if you use the Edit->'Paste Special' function you get a list of the formats on offer that OOo can deal with. What we want to achieve is document source meta-data (including page number, chapter name etc.) included with the text and formating in the copy data sent to buffer. If we had this then the OOo Edit->'Paste Special' would offer - plain text, formated text in RTF, formated in HTML, OOo internal format. formated text in RTF (with metadata), formated in HTML (with metadata), OOo internal format (with metadata). Copy/paste with Metadata on/off would be a document user option. If this was taken up by the ODTC then there may be some chance of convincing the developers of web browsers and other apps to follow . I think this approach may require a document standard for handling copy/past metadata. Also I would imagine the commercial people such as Adobe might be happy to keep the Adobe trademark, copyright notices etc. along with text copied from PDF documents. David > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
