Re: [dev-biblio] more on word support

2006-07-16 Thread pt
David is proposing that the scope of the OOo bibliogrpahy tools be kept to an absolute minimum. I would support this. I would like to see: 1. An external reference database / research tool that could be used with both Word and Writer. It should be able to store not jsut metadata but full-text ar

Re: [dev-biblio] more on word support

2006-07-16 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 7/16/06, David Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been think about this question, what do we need a local SQL database for? And how does it need to be integrated with the Bibliographic application? And come to think of it, do we need to have source editing within OOo at all? One could

Re: [dev-biblio] more on word support

2006-07-16 Thread David Wilson
On Sunday 16 July 2006 9:47 pm, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > > And I think with some caveats, they will have met these goals. I am > particularly intrigued by their no-local-database approach, where the > editing forms are only editing XML data embedded in the file package. > > This is something we need

Re: [dev-biblio] more on word support

2006-07-16 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Jul 16, 2006, at 5:38 AM, David Wilson wrote: I read through the exchange and I think you put your position very well and the response was rather defensively or evasive. I think it's worth paying close attention to what they've done not just for interoperability's sake, but also because

Re: [dev-biblio] more on word support

2006-07-16 Thread David Wilson
I read through the exchange and I think you put your position very well and the response was rather defensively or evasive. David On Saturday 15 July 2006 10:52 am, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > So based on back-and-forth with the product manager responsible for > the new bib support in Word 2007*: >