On Jun 6, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Matt Price wrote:
ah well. we should have been first, now we'll be playing catchup &
have a significant lag behind them. lost opportunity!
Well, OOo does have bib support, and we don't know that the new Word
stuff will be any better. Poking around suggests it's fairly limited.
On the other hand, I suppose we'll probably need an improved
bibliographic
component if OOo is to be able to handle word 2007 docs... so I
suppose that will help prod the Sun folks into action.
Yeah, that's how I look at it. I think it's in our interest to have
good document-level bib support wherever we can. Ideally, I'd like
roughly equivalent file level support in OXML and ODF. The rest would
take care of itself; at least at some point!
I wonder whether it would be possible to write a grant proposal to
support the development of the bib component? I mean, if the main
developers see no importance in this functionality.
Yes, that's something to consider. I did look into an NSF grant for
this awhile back, but talking to the program officer wasn't
encouraging. We could also consider private foundations like Mellon. Am
not sure how the legal status of OOo affects our options here. Also,
it's time-consuming to write grants, so we need to find a way to
address that too.
Bruce
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