"Alexandro Colorado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I assume that he want to make OOo mailable as part of the content. > This can be achieve on software such as IBM Workspace. But OOo still > doesn't support an email transfer that will make it's native format > (OpenDocument/OpenOffice.org text) an email content. > > In an age where HTML email is being avoided due to spyware and spam, > the integration seems less and less likely to happen. > But this isn't exactly the problem. OOo native format isn't HTML, and OOo documents have to be massaged if they are cut and pasted into web pages to deal with smart quotes, em dashes, accented letters and other things which are differently coded in HTML than in OOo. If you're saving and sending as plain text, you need another set of transformations. It seems to me that there are, in principle, two possible solutions to this sort of problem. There is the hard core unix one, where you use one text editor for everything and pipe the results to your mail program, your formatting program, etc, etc; and the there is the MS/Corel/Lotus one in which the address book, the scheduler and the email program are all integrated with the word processor, and all display variously fancy formats. OOo falls uneasily between these two patterns. One possible soluton would be to try to integrate OOo with gmail -- which gives cross-platform email. Complete integration would require an immense effort to beef up and improve OOo's displays of web pages, which is at present abysmal. But partial integration -- just using Gmail as the address book, and the posting mechanism -- would probably be a whole lot easier. Somone sould have put that up for Google's summer of code. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
