discuss: OpenOffice.org
Subject:
OpenOffice.org
From:
jdd ####@####.####
Date:
15 Apr 2002 17:38:09 -0000
Message-Id: <20020415173804.CA8315FA16@postfix2-2.free.fr>
my message on the OpenOffice.org dev list gives great results. OOo devs seems
to really like the idea of working with the ldp.
But I can only do a link, I'm not at all a expert of docbook.
Is there on this mailing list anybody knowing well docbook who could help OOo
devs identify docbook features ?
thanks
jdd
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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Re: [whiteboard-dev] ldp
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:37:26 -0500
From: Gary Frederick ####@####.####
To: ####@####.####
Cc: ####@####.#### ####@####.####
Wow - this looks like a great opportunity.
I'm going to think about this and see how I can come up with some time
to help.
Gary
Matthias Hütsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your interest in the OpenOffice.org XML file format. As we
> have a dedicated project named 'xml' dealing with this format, I'm
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> Hope that helps,
> Matthias
>
> jdd wrote:
>> Dear fellows,
>>
>> I'm the author of a LDP (Linux documentation project) HOWTO and a
>> friend of one of the ldp board members. The following is done with his
>> consent.
>>
>> I tried to write to juergen pingel but his mail bounces. I hope this
>> is the right place.
>>
>> The LDP has a longtime problem. It must spread his documentations on a
>> format allowing scripting conversion to a variety of other formats
>> (html, man, info, pdf, txt to only quote the most known).
>>
>> This documentation is written by users knowing often few of word editing.
>>
>> Long time ago, LDP used the « linuxdoc/SGML » format, a very simple
>> one, easy to write with emacs or vi. Lyx allowed also writing linuxdoc
>> easily.
>>
>> But this format what definitivly too simple and lacks too much
>> features. It's still usable but out of date. It has been replaced by
>> docbook/SGML then docbook/XML.
>>
>> But this new format uses much more complex tags and only power users
>> can master it.
>>
>> Alas no word processor manage this format under linux (wordperfect is
>> said to do under Windows).
>>
>> Then OpenOffice.org comes. It's revolutionary file format, XML based,
>> allow a very simple isolation of included objects and scripting usage
>> for translation purpose. It's tags are DTD described.
>>
>> It should need very few editing (if any) to make Ooo docbook capable.
>>
>> This would be a very good step to an universal file format.
>>
>> Would you, as OpenOffice.org developpers, agree to work with the LDP
>> to make Ooo a great docbook/XML éditor?
>>
>> We, at the LDP, would be very glad to do so.
>>
>> Your sincerely
>> Jean-Daniel Dodin
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