On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:06 -0600, Steve Herrick wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:04:04 -0600, Frank Cox > <melville.theatre at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:24:04 +0000, Nik <scribus at babel.homelinux.net> > > wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a format that fits the > > > requirements I've described, or could be made to? > > > > OpenOffice? It has a fully-documented format and is cross-platform already. > > This is what I was going to say. It's XML-based, and well-documented.
True. I don't think it really qualifies as a particularly good format for document transport and viewing though, at least not for DTP documents. As far as I know it's just not made for precision layout and control, and lacks *many* of the features needed by DTP apps from their final output formats. I'd be happy to be proved wrong, of course. > Also, I've been talking to Phil Hughes, and he has someone who wants > to write an OOo reader for Mozilla. I reflected on that thought for a > while, and the more I did, the more amazed I was at the implications > and possibilities. That would be *extremely* cool. -- Craig Ringer
