Mathias Bauer írta:
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.
I agree here. Live preview of modifications, bulding blocks, on-line
template handling is a good thing.
I think we should implement all of these features. We sgould improve
AutoText to handle all bulding block functionality. Introduce page,
header, footer, etc. Autotexts. I think it is possible. Also we need
more content in Autotext.
About template handling wishes:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Templates
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_-_Templates
It has a lot of them and it uses them quite
elegantly and without bothering users with technical details. But that's
only me. :-)
I do agree :o)
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.
Are you planning to implement and include the grammar checker itself? Or
it will be a downloadable extra? An out-of-box thing is would be nice.
Improvements in the area of templates or template handling are under
discussion, see e.g. some of my blogs in blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS.
See the links above...
Bibliography will be addressed when ODF1.2 is ready.
Do it mean target 2.4?
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.
Okay!
Ciao,
Mathias
KAMI
