On 13 Dec 2000, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Gunther" == Gunther Birznieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Gunther> I would be against PPT if StarOffice couldn't read and write those
> Gunther> files. But since there is a Linux alternative, I would prefer a slide
> Gunther> format stored in the format that slides are made for.
>
> Gunther> Unless of course, anyone has experience with StarOffice being
> Gunther> particularly bad at this. In which case, maybe we do have to start
> Gunther> with POD or XML for everytthing including the slides.
>
> Well, StarOffice doesn't run on my Mac. :) But when Darwin finalizes,
> that'll probably be a moot point, presuming someone compiles
> StarOffice for Darwin.
>
> However, a better format for interchange would almost certainly be
> something like XML or (horrors) POD. A text-ish format would make
> diffs from CVS make more sense anyway.
Editing xml with no good xml editor is a nightmare... that's why pod is
much friendly even if it's very limited. I want to be able to edit files
from any console on any machine. Can I run StarOffice from remote
machine? Of course, not. It hardly runs on the local machine, as it's
bloated just like M$$Word...
Even cvs diffs with XML won't be very easy to read, because there are too
many tags.
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