Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > Note, too that you mention RFEs and priority levels. Someone recently > pointed that it's a little strange that bibliographic enhancements > are the second highest requested feature in OOo, and yet is ranked > far down the list of priorties.
That's not true. We already decided to work on better bibliographic support as soon as the necessary ODF stuff is done. I would call this a relatively high priority. We just won't start before ODF has settled wrt. this. My low prio was related to interfacing with 3rd party stuff. IIRC this is not what the issue with the many votes mainly is about. The bibliographic enhancements issue more or less is a meta issue. I think once we have done the first step we should make out a balance sheet, see what's left and decide on priorities. Does that make sense? ATM the whole issue just covers too much and it is unclear wether each and every voter really voted to have the whole stuff or just his favorite part of it. We must get an overview once the basic stuff is done. > Right, I think we all agree we need the new citation field and > metadata support in ODF for this to work well. Am fine with deferring > until that happens. Fine. > Our primary question at that point should be whether the ZOOM API and > code would work. To shorten this discussion I asked: >> Do you think that it fits into the way we want to describe >> bibliographic data in ODF? > > I work a lot with the Zotero guys (they use some of the stuff I > developed for OOoBib, like the citation style language). I don't > think we'll have any problems working out details on their end. As I wrote, receiving data via SOAP is doable. If the received data could be converted to the ODF format easily (or already *is* provided in that format) we will surely find a way to use this data in an extension that adds it to an OOo document. As extension development gets more and more easy nowdays I hope we can motivate some developers interested in bibliographic support to help us as this could speed up things considerably. BASIC knowledge will be sufficient, no Java or C++ necessary. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
