Christian Seberino wrote: > 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? > > Chris
Word processing is interesting in that it doesn't try to define it's purpose. Letters to Aunt Sally, press releases, Newsletter pamphlets, annual reports, ... As SS mentions in another post, page layout really deserves a separate specialty operation, but people have been sorta sometimes forcing tolerable results with wordprocessors. Already ten (or more) years ago, this resulted in unrestrained feature explosion in WP software. To answer your question, <heh> maybe: TeX ?roff proprietary WP software pdf There's more expertise out there than mine, let's vote. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
