Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > I just sent Mathias an off-list note, but was thinking a bit more, > so ... > > Developers working with the Zotero project (http://zotero.org) just > about have OOo integration sorted out. This is great! > > There's one problem, however, that relates to a limitation in OOo. > > They want round-trip compatabilty with Word. User creates document in > Word and adds citations, and they should remain live in OOo. > > Using fields in Word is by far the preferred solution here. But OOo > does not really have any generic field support, and it doesn't really > preserve field logic. > > To get around this, Ian Laurenson is using bookmarks in OOo. That > works apparently. > > But doing so in Word is less-than-ideal. > > We're thus stuck with less-than-ideal options: using bookmarks in > Word, or breaking the chance for round-tripping between Word and OOo. > > So I'd like to suggest two possible solutions for OOo: > > 1) on Word import, convert fields to bookmarks > > 2) support the new text:meta-field structure that will be in ODF 1.2, > and map Word fields to it
I thought that's what we have already agreed upon, moreover my impression was that besides the general meta-field stuff there will be an explicit support for citations. 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]
