On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:37:38PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:00:02AM +1100, George W Gerrity wrote:
> > My interest (and my interest in monitoring this e-mail group) lies in
> > the possibility of getting involved in an open WYSIWYG document
> > editor based on XML and UTF-8, so I (and others) can get out of the
> > thrall of Word. To be successful, such an application will HAVE to be
> > a) WYSIWYG; b) multi platform; c) able to read and dump rtf format,
> > even if the result is crippled; d) be modular and open (source and
> > APIs), both to spread the development effort and to encourage its use.
>
> Have you considered looking at existing systems? What about KWord? Why
> does it have to XML-based?
To the best of my knowledge, kword is XML, just compressed with gzip
(and maybe tar)... anyway, it's some standard unix transformation of
XML.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
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