Quoting Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
D. Carrera wrote:
But this addon would not be embedded in an .odt paragraph (at
least, not in the current and near-future OOo releases).
Why not, if I may ask?
May I ask... is there a reason why a .odt file is needed but
an addon won't work for you? (provided that the add-on works
whenever OOo is installed).
Fair question, but you partly answered it yourself. OpenDocument
is one thing, OO.o another. Who can assume that the latter *will*
be installed wherever the former is used? Especially in 2/4 years,
if OpenDocument is to become the truly universal that we keep
saying etc etc...
Before answering "gee, that's so far in the future, why bother?",
keep in mind that OpenDocument is being advertised as *the* long
term solution for governments, multinationals and so on. All
organizations that have a huge inertia to switch, and before
"buying" the whole FOSS thing still need to see or be told that
there *is* a coherent, long term strategy behind.
Back to my training class example: a portable macro embedded into
an .odt file is what you could use to distribute tutorials or any
other interactive educational material where there is scarce bandwidth
and/or PCs not powerful enough to run OO.o. Ditto for CDs attached
to magazines or books.
Teacher writes on OO.o, students learn on KOffice. Or vice-versa.
That's why I said "embedded into the .odt file". Of course, if
(in the conditions above) there is any other solution which has
the same end result for the student/user is OK, but is there?
Ciao,
Marco F.
AFAIK add-ons are not part of the file (odt) but you can still insert code in
the file by adding macros documents.
The macros are libraries, scripts and even forms that are carry within the
document. At least this is the way ooomacros.org have them and so does other
files like Py-Xray and Dokuwiki.
--
Alexandro Colorado
Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish
http://es.openoffice.org/
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