On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 22:21 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: [...] > I have to admit that I might have misunderstood the purpose of the thread, > since some other comments indicate that other people understand it as looking > for solutions regarding simple formatting, not HTML or word processor like > separation of structure and style.
I started the discussion because I want to see reliable interoperability for copy/paste (and of course drag/drop) between applications on the various Free desktops. I want something better than plain text -- GMarkup is a little too minimal -- but we can't expect every application to support all of ODF. The ones that do can use ODF as a clipboard format already. I admit I was originally planning to propose a small, extensible XML vocabulary that would be a superset of the markup that Gtk+ and Pango use today, and also compatible with Qt/KDE's HTML-like markup. For example, there should be room for typographic things like bold, italic, letterspacing, for superscript/subscript, for ruby (CJK-style annotations) and spans marked by language and script, etc etc etc. But I was (am) reluctant to propose something specific until others have had a chance to comment. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
