On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:43:09PM +1100, Mike MacCana wrote: > This discussion began on the list. I'd like to keep it there. > > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:34, Russell Davies wrote: > > ; Its significantly better. We're using an open documented format, that > > ; any application can support should it wish to. > > ; > > ; Even better, we're using a tool designed for the job, unlike HTML. > > ; OpenOffice has proper mechanisms for tracking changes in a document, far > > ; better support for a print oriented documents, spreadsheet functions, > > ; mail merging, etc. > > > > you obviously don't have a unix background. monolithic tools suck. You > > use smaller specialised tools for such tasks. > > You obviously know very little about OpenOffice
I suspect that you've not actually bothered to try your "it's simple, use XSLT to convert" theory. I have, well at least tried to. Let me know once you've got past the first stumbling block of no documentation for the DTDs. Even the referenced URLs for the DTDs don't exist. Waiting patiently, Anand -- `` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
