Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-03 Thread Peter Kelly
On 3 Dec 2014, at 9:15 am, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 02 Dec2014, at 21:05, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/12/14 00:01, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: The ® name for them is “Quickoffice®-Pro”. That is the name of the software. I've seen three or four

Re: Unofficial photos ApacheCon EU 2014

2014-11-23 Thread Peter Kelly
On 23 Nov 2014, at 10:38 am, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: It's Louis on the right, Peter Kelly at the podium, Steve Hathaway (see https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Capstone_2013_Client_Requirements_Document ) in the audience, and I think the hands on the left are Svante

Re: DocFormats - Open source OOXML implementation

2014-08-16 Thread Peter Kelly
On 16 Aug 2014, at 12:55 pm, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: I've also been fixing (or breaking, who knows!) some documentation on my clone (my fork as Github likes to call it) but I'll submit a pull request only when basic things work. I've just merged in your changes and also

Re: DocFormats - Open source OOXML implementation

2014-08-16 Thread Peter Kelly
and requested for signed e-mail -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 01:10 To: dev Subject: Re: DocFormats - Open source OOXML implementation On 16 August 2014 03:50, Peter Kelly kelly...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] Now, onto

DocFormats - Open source OOXML implementation

2014-08-15 Thread Peter Kelly
Those of you interested in OOXML may want to have a look at my own implementation of (a subset of) the spec, which is part of a library I've just made available as open source (license is ASLv2): https://github.com/uxproductivity/DocFormats I started working on this around two years ago as

Re: DocFormats - Open source OOXML implementation

2014-08-15 Thread Peter Kelly
On 16 Aug 2014, at 5:26 am, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 15/08/2014 Peter Kelly wrote: Those of you interested in OOXML may want to have a look at my own implementation of (a subset of) the spec, which is part of a library I've just made available as open source (license

Re: DocFormats - Open source OOXML implementation

2014-08-15 Thread Peter Kelly
On 16 Aug 2014, at 5:26 am, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Does this mean that $ dfutil/dfutil filename.docx filename.html $ dfutil/dfutil filename.html filename2.docx should produce a filename2.docx that is quite similar to filename.docx? It is failing rather badly (invalid

Re: how can I get source code of openoffice using git?

2014-08-12 Thread Peter Kelly
On 13 Aug 2014, at 8:26 am, wpzhonghuan wpzhongh...@gmail.com wrote: I sorry to send this email to ask the method that getting the source code using git, I have little idea about SVN. Hoping to get your reply. https://github.com/apache/openoffice -- Dr. Peter M. Kelly Founder, UX

Why is it so hard to make a Java program appear native?

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Kelly
An interesting discussion I came across today: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/why-is-it-so-hard-to-make-a-java-program-appear-native/ (and yes I realise OO doesn't use Java for it's UI, but the points raised apply to all cross-platform UI toolkits). Question: To what

Re: Why is it so hard to make a Java program appear native?

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Kelly
On 11 Aug 2014, at 3:42 pm, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Question: To what extent is the OO UI frontend code separate from the backend editing, file format handling, and rendering code? I'm thinking in particular here of mobile - which demands a completely different approach to

Re: Why is it so hard to make a Java program appear native?

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Kelly
On 11 Aug 2014, at 3:14 pm, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/08/14 09:59, Peter Kelly wrote: An interesting discussion I came across today: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/why-is-it-so-hard-to-make-a-java-program-appear-native/ (and yes I realise OO

Re: About debugging tokenizer of writerfilter

2014-08-08 Thread Peter Kelly
While I'm not familiar with the current filter implementation, the error you've run into does't look like it's the reason for your document not being processed correctly; the message indicates to me that it's not even getting to the point of being able to load the module necessary to do the

Re: OOXML

2014-08-03 Thread Peter Kelly
On 3 Aug 2014, at 1:57 am, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: I too am on peter fast rolling waggon :-) but I am also confused. @peter maybe you could explain a couple of things, for non-document specialists: 1) Following your thought, with biderectional editors. Why would a editor have a home

Re: OOXML

2014-08-03 Thread Peter Kelly
On 3 Aug 2014, at 3:05 am, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: In line with the sketch that Peter Kelley provides below, I am personally very sympathetic to the idea of having an internal model that can tolerate difference in format between input and output while preserving in

Change tracking versioning (was Re: OOXML)

2014-08-03 Thread Peter Kelly
On 3 Aug 2014, at 3:05 am, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: In line with the sketch that Peter Kelley provides below, I am personally very sympathetic to the idea of having an internal model that can tolerate difference in format between input and output while preserving in

Re: OOXML

2014-08-03 Thread Peter Kelly
On 3 Aug 2014, at 6:52 pm, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Peter Kelly schrieb: There's two ways to view a format: (1) as a way of encoding information for storage or transmission, and (2) as an in-memory data structure used by the editor at runtime. In some programs

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On 2 Aug 2014, at 9:24 pm, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: The Support that is done is to receieve OOXML not to produce them, the discussion issue would be to support legacy formats like .doc or .xls. I still dont see a point to generate OOXML and most people dont care as long as

OOXML documentation

2014-07-24 Thread Peter Kelly
Hi, I've begun writing up some documentation on the OOXML file format on the wiki: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/OOXML The new content is that linked to from the first section, currently limited to a description of the packaging format, extensibility features, and a brief introduction to

Introducing myself

2014-07-09 Thread Peter Kelly
Hi everyone, I've been following OpenOffice and ODF's evolution for quite some time now, and am interested in getting involved in the community, as I think there's some areas I could contribute to. I've previously had many discussions about this with Louis Suárez-Potts, who suggested I