This is probably a lost cause since it is the de-facto standard. Besides, since there are many editors that can read and write the Word fromat fairly well, the point is moot. -- IV
except that Word is useless for serious documents of any kind. All the openEHR documents are in Adobe FrameMaker, because it is functionally 100x better than Word, and has few bugs (none that I know of with auto-numbering, cross-referencing, templates, or multi-document books). Plain text and HTML are completely out of the question for doing quality publications. I don't know of any open source tool that comes close to Frame....and for that reason it is used by a lot of people in medical informatics publishing. I would love to have the situation otherwise, but still see no solution. Actually, Frame 7 now saves in XML, but I have never investigated whether this makes it truly interoperable or not. I have had to write quite a few papers in Word, and it is always a terrible experience. You cannot even get a graphic to stay put. I am surprised anyone uses it for anything really...
- thomas beale
