On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, CPHennessy wrote:
> I'm not sure if it makes sense but would the smarttags feature which was
> recently added be useful to develope the citation component ?
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/successful_community_project_smart_tags
CPH,
It is good news that Smart Tags seem to be progressing as I view the
smart
tags as one of the essential elements that will make for possible for the new
new bibliographic facility to built as a Extension Project. This seems to be
the general view as the Bibliographic Project is now listed under 'Extension
Projects' on the projects web page
( http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html ).
Using Smart Tags will make it possible for developers using the Extension
Toolkit to define new tags in the document, or use existing tags in new
ways, and add plug-in extension code to handle those tags, with the specific
context and system menus.
( http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions )
This method will greatly aid our project because our developers will not need
to learn how to make changes to the huge and complex OpenOffice code base,
but will be able to work with the much simpler Extension Toolkit in C++,
python or java. This is a skill set that should be much easier to recruit.
regards
David
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David N. Wilson
Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic
OpenOffice.org Project
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org
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