On 15 April 2015 at 14:12, Gabriela Gibson <gabriela.gib...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Franz and Jan,
>
> the tip on saving as docx in Apache Office is very useful, and once I get
> my computer out of storage, I'll also install MS on there. For now, I have
> a 32 bit lappie with 2GB of RAM, so I'm in the race on a veritable Lada.
>
The docx support in Apache OpenOffice (speaking as PMC in that project) is
at best not reliable. It works most of
the time, but I would never use it for a reference document.



>
> Maybe it should just be one sample document per format?
>
> Say:
>
> 1) Headers (or sections in LaTeX, which I think it s better term),
> 2) bold,italic,underline
> 3) lists
> 4) fonts: courier, Times, or equivs
> 5) comment
> 6) table
> 7)  pictures: jpeg, png
> 8) header, footer (as in LaTeX, stuff that is printed on every page)
> 9) footnote
> 10) html link
> 11) page number.
>
sounds ok, I cannot just if the list is complete but it is a good start.

>
> If anyone needs a more limited selection, they can just delete or uncomment
> the stuff they don't need. And if someone later on feel frisky and wants to
> put some bling on the Yak, they can code a sample generator :-D
>
+1

>
> Regards the samples in the asset directory that sounds like a good idea,
> but I think if we call it 'samples' it's more obvious than 'assets' and we
> can save on the 'samples_ ' prefix, which saves on typing (and reading).
>
> So, samples/code, samples/documents would be my suggestion.
>
+1

please create the directories with a README.txt

rgds
jan i.

>
> G
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Franz de Copenhague <
> franzdecopenha...@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> > >>
> > >> I have access to odf, but not to docx generators.
> > >
> > >
> > >you are a asf committer so you can apply for a microsoft msdn license
> for
> > free,
> > >that gives you access to pretty much all microsoft tools.
> > >
> >
> > You can generate odf, and save as docx as well.
> >
> > Regarding to samples directory, so far we have sample_code,
> > sample_documents and assets in dfwebserver. So, I propose to have assets
> on
> > top of the repository and code and documents under. I can move dfwebsever
> > assets folder to /assets/documents folder
> >
> > assets/code
> > assets/documents
> >
> > I have a couple of comments regarding to the sample documents:
> >
> > * simple1.html and list.html have the same content
> >
> > * I suggest to refactory h1-6_center_p.html like
> > <p>This is a paragraph with five sentences:
> >     <span> this sentence is plain. </span> <!-- I don’t know if editor
> > will split up the plain PCDATA in span tags -->
> >     <b> This sentence is bold.</b>
> >     <u> This sentence is underlined.</u>
> >     <i>This sentence is slanted.</i>
> > <b><i>This sentence is bold and slanted.</b></i>
> > </p>
> >
> > Franz
> >
>
>
>
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