Re: [dev-biblio] ODF requirements

2006-07-28 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
Peter, comment from one of the MS people on Brian Jones' blog: Since Open XML is the default format for Office 2007, I don't think that MS has changed a lot in the binary format and adapted the XML format as an afterthought. So the reference for binary compatibility would be Office 2003. Any p

Re: [dev-biblio] ODF requirements

2006-07-27 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:04 PM, pt wrote: I would like to see consideration of interoperability with the Microsoft Office Open XML formats (if a proposed feature will compromise interop I'd prefer it left out). It would also be worth looking at the MS Word to ODF converter project which should

Re: [dev-biblio] ODF requirements

2006-07-27 Thread pt
I would like to see consideration of interoperability with the Microsoft Office Open XML formats (if a proposed feature will compromise interop I'd prefer it left out). It would also be worth looking at the MS Word to ODF converter project which should be retro-fittable into older versions of Word

[dev-biblio] ODF requirements

2006-07-27 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
FYI, the ODF metadata SC met today to discuss how we'll move forward with the requirements document. We're going to start by discussing in detail two of what we think are the most difficult and representative use cases we need to solve. The first of these will be bibliographies and citation