On Jun 6, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Matt Price wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:26:57PM -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
Just found out today that MS is offering citation and bib support in
Word
2007.
<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/
ms406055.aspx#office2007wordwhatsnew_othernewfeatures>
Still trying to find out the details, and if there's a way we can have
good interoperability with ODF.
ah well. we should have been first, now we'll be playing catchup &
have a significant lag behind them. lost opportunity! 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.
I managed to track down some more info, though still have questions
about details. My initial conclusion is that it SEEMS that their bib
support will be only marginally superior to the existing OOo bib
support. They avoided one or two mistakes the StarOffice team made
(they store the bib data separate from the content file, which is what
we will be doing in the future), but not all of them (the data model
looks to be based on BibTeX, and it's unclear to me whether they've
designed it for anything but science types).
Bruce
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