Alexandro Colorado wrote: > I respect bruce's editorial concept however I think the writting is a > bit biass toward word. One of the things is that the description of > the problems weren't that indepth as in why it fails.
No, I think he is quite fair though I would weight some points differently. For me the highlight of Word 2007 clearly is the way it works with templates/themes. It has a lot of them and it uses them quite elegantly and without bothering users with technical details. But that's only me. :-) Let's look on the main points where Bruce thinks that Writer falls short: - cross references - grammar checking - templates - outlining - bibliography All are points where we are working on or have planned to do so! Cross reference improvements should be ready in 3.0, the infrastructure for Grammar Checking hopefully also (we will see). Then it's up to the Grammar Checker vendors to integrate their software into OOo. The API won't be very complicated. Improvements in the area of templates or template handling are under discussion, see e.g. some of my blogs in blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS. Bibliography will be addressed when ODF1.2 is ready. Outlining still is waiting for some layout separations and surely will not be ready in 3.0. But it is planned for the time after that. 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]
