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Brainstorm New Ideas: Document Check
http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2009/12/brainstorm-new-ideas-document-check.html
results of automated tests from OOO320m5 and OOO320m7
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| Automated tests on milestone OO320m7 are
| finished. Automated testing team reported a
| 'green state' for all automated tests. Just
| a small problem in w_updt.bas bother the
| consistent picture of all platforms marked
| green in QUASTe. This issue wasn't easy to
| find but at the end we solved the problem in
| showstopper CWS 'jl146' with issue 107038.
| Depending on desktop respectively
| OpenOffice.org window size the document is
| middle or left aligned with automatic view
| layout (which is default). This lead to the
| problem sometimes the objects in writer
| document were drawn outside of the documents
| area by autotest. Finally we found and fixed
| it by correcting view layout before
| testcases run. Some additional minor fixes
| for more stability were also done in this
| CWS. Punctually with release of RC1 next
| week the autotests are expected to deliver a
| 'green state' on initial testrun.
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/results_of_automated_tests_from
ODF - The Future of Literate Programming?
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| Which brings me to the 'what if' question.
| What if we leveraged the fact that there is
| now a non-proprietary standard XML
| representation for richly formatted office
| documents called ODF[2]. What if we used ODF
| compatible tools like OpenOffice[3] to write
| our programs? How would we extract the lines
| of code to feed to our compilers? We could
| just use paragraph styles that indicate
| Ãfeed this to the compilerÃ.
|
| For documentation, an embarrassment of
| riches would then be instantly available. We
| could use level heading to split up the
| code/documentation into hierarchical chunks.
| We could generate tables of contents from
| these level headings. We could insert
| pictures wherever we need them along with
| tables, cross references, index entries and
| so on. Heck we could even embed
| spreadsheets, photographs taken of white-
| boards at planning meetings, the whole
| shebang.
|
| WYSIWYG literate programming with ODF? I do
| not see why not.
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http://www.propylon.com/news/ctoarticles/051129_odf_the_future.html
Open for business
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| Open for Business logoA couple of years ago
| we came up with a slogan for OpenOffice.org
| â Open for Business â to get across a couple
| of messages:
|
| * OpenOffice.org software may be used by
| commercial businesses completely free of
| any licence fees
| * OpenOffice.org software is also a
| great platform to build businesses
| around â training providers, systems
| integrators, PC manufacturers to name
| but a few
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http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/10/open-for-business/
ODF is now winning in Japan...
Recent:
Open formats over open words
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| There are some file formats which are published,
| open standards. Portable Document Format (PDF)
| is one you've probably heard of. HyperText
| Markup Language (HTML) is another. OpenDocument
| Format (ODF) is an ISO international standard,
| and the tools to use that format are free. But
| there are other file formats which are
| proprietary, and can only be edited natively in
| one specific application. The formats used by
| Microsoft Word (DOC and lately DOCX) come to
| mind. WordPerfect (WPS) is another program which
| uses a proprietary file format to store
| information.
|
| If I receive a PDF or HTML file, I can open it
| in a wide variety of applications, some of which
| are both well designed and obtainable for free.
| But if I'm sent a WPS or DOCX, I need the
| specific application that was used to create the
| file to open it reliably. Requiring me to have
| certain computer software doesn't seem very
| inclusive. âBut everybody has Microsoft Word!â
| you might be thinking to yourself. Is that the
| same âeverybodyâ who celebrates Christmas? Think
| about that.
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http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/2009/nov/27/opinion/open-formats-over-open-words/
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