I confess that I haven't read every post in this thread, but my interpretation of the subject is a little different from the binder type approach.
To me it should be possible to have one document that can be: * printed nicely on pages * projected appropriately for a presentation * displayed on a web page * have interactive features (x forms?) * be spoken aloud for blind people or available over a voice phone Take for example lecturers preparing material for lectures. They may have a "book" style handout, they may have a presentation, they may have on-line static information pages, they may have an interactive test on the subject matter. Currently this would typically be handled by separate files. Each year they update their material, and this means making sure that each of these files is updated in a consistent manner. All of this should be possible in one document through styles. For the closest approach to this that I am aware of there is Course Genie for an other office suite. I have toyed with the idea of writing something similar for OpenOffice.org, but it would be even better if styles in OOo were enhanced to allow for this directly. Thanks, Ian On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 22:45 -0700, jrc wrote: > The main system I have seen that was intended to coordinate a variety of > formats was MS Office *Binder. > *This was not recognized as generally successful by users of MSOffice. > I don't see it mentioned in comments about the current suite. > > Enjoy, > > Jim Carter > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Ian Laurenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hillview --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
