begin quoting Christian Seberino as of Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:34:03PM -0800: > > On Fri, February 23, 2007 2:51 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > Jason Kraus wrote: > >> So why is xhtml a bad thing for open office to use? > > > > Because the problem which xhtml services is different, and only very > > tangentially related, to word processing. > > > > XHTML is about content and only slightly about presentation. Word > > processing is mostly about presentation and only slightly about content. > > > > This means that you need to create absolutely horrible hacks in XHTML to > > make the page look *exactly* like you want. And that's normally what > > people using a word processor want--exact control over how the page looks. > > OK but what standard would you suggest that would be better for word > processing then?
TeX. -- Beautiful output. Text input. Too bad it's turing-complete. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
