Recently I got called out of order by Dieter Löschky. The reason was my post regarding page breaks to the ODF Toolkit mailing list:
Hi Gabriel,
*in theory* ODF has a mechanism to do so.
You could use text:class-names instead of text:style name to attach the styles to the paragraph.
E.g. let S be "your" style and let "P1" be a paragraph style which defines only a page break. Then in ODF
you could write
<text:p text:class-names="S P1">...</text:p>
or
<text:p text:style-name="S" text:class-names="P1">...</text:p>
That where the good news.
The bad news is that as far as I can see the ODFTK is not supporting it. Also OpenOffice.org does not seem to correctly
implement this... If you wanna give it a try www.go-oo.org seems to do it right.
My two cents,
~Florian
P.S.
You have a good point. Modifying the style just because of a paragraph is a pain!!!!
(Not my most brilliant post).
The answer from Dieter Löschky was then:
Hi Florian,
this mailing list is about ODF-Toolkit and OpenOffice.org and not
intended to promote your project.
I would love to see you helping to implement missing features in the
ODF-Toolkit project.
Regards,
Dieter
What I found very funny it that Dieter seems to have no problem advertising his own products on the very same mailing list:
Hello Bernhard,
we are offering a commercial StarOffice Server product which supports
PDF conversion, many other kinds of Office document conversion as well
as printing of Office documents.
The StarOffice Server is based on the OpenOffice.org product but needs
no X server for document processing / rendering.
If you are interested in this product, please feel free to contact me.
Regards,
Dieter
This kind of hypocracy sucks.
Anyway --- Next subject: Microsoft is implementing ODF 1.1.
I definetly need to do a follow up post on that. Just that I don't forget I filed the bugs the Microsoft developers found in the OpenOffice.org ODF 1.1 support:
6 comments:
He might seem a hypocrite in a way, but that by no way means he’s not right.
I wonder how long it took you to look through archives for that posting of his?
Calm down friends. You all work on the same project. Give the baby another name but still it is the same OpenOffice.org core. The difference to me is they way development is done (one my argue about SUNs handling of rights and licence issues here but we shouldn't do it here). At the end it is about OpenOffice.org development. Please share and collaborate instead of arguing. At least this is what open source is about.
It would be better to put your work in OOo and not in such useless blog articles. Nobody has anything from such discussion. Nobody has a benefit from parallel development.
Sorry to say this, but this is very unprofessional attitude. And the readers might associate this with your company, if they have to decide the next time to buy a Novell product or not...
Pretty bold statements for an "Anonymous". Maybe its a good idea to get a name for you.
Anyhow --- lets do a field study:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92482
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92483
.. and talking about professionalism: What s your name / whats the company you're working for. Maybe customers want to know what too to make a decision.
I assume you're working for Sun?
great topic
good luck and wish to read more
in your blog
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