Hello Stephen, I have added comments inline...
Stephen Gassner wrote:
I am a California family law attorney. Before that I was a systems
engineering consultant,
<snipped impressive computer background and a little bit more...>
I would like to help you. But I do not have the immediate resources around me, to help you in a very significant
manner. The assistants that I do have, are either paralegals or
secretaries. They are not programmers, mathematicians, or engineers, such
as I assembled at DEC.
Excellent!
For right now, I would like access to an individual with detailed knowledgeIn general, I consider a template to be a collection of styles with a base document to use. Understanding how to use styles is in general critical. The user list is a great place to ask about templates.
to help me develop a competent Legal Pleading template. Technically it's
trivial, but marketingwise, it's critical. I found a couple such templates
and downloaded them. Neither really solves the problem quite correctly.
There might be underlying source code problems that made it difficult for
the developers to implement. With adquate access to detailed knowledge of
the underlying software platform, that problem should be solvable very
readily. I would anticipate that OpenOffice would serve the Legal Community
very well. We have been frustrated with Correl and Microsoft for years.
They have been nonresponsive to our needs. Contribute, and we will
contribute back.
the ooauthors web site has a lot of information concerning this:
http://www.oooauthors.org/
I think that the user's guide may be at:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/
I am just not certain which repository is the best for a new template..... but hopefully at least some of my information is useful... The authors site is collaborative, but it is primarily concerned with documentation, not extras, as is found at the OOo extras site.
Now, this is starting to become interesting. Are you looking to integrate this with your template, or do you see these as different things? it looks like you want to exchange data between OpenOffice.org and a PIM. I am not aware of a current project dealing with this at the moment. If there is, you can search the projects from the OpenOffice.org projects page. http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectListFrom there (Legal Pleading Template) I will propose integrating into variosPIMs, particularly incuding Abacus Law, and PIMs linked thereto through a product they call the Companion Link.
I assume that your proposed solution involves moving data to OOo and then printing from thereA good solution is needed for printing from a wireless device.
For what it's worth, you can see my website at http://www.gassner-law.com/. It wouldn't show much software engineering, since my family markets Family Law Legal Services there.
Stephen Gassner
Nice web site!
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