On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 13:06, Jonathon Blake wrote:
[snip]
> Forget about creating them. How about finding the macros, or templates
> in the first place?

I agree that this is the main concern, and the Wizard that I have
written is just that - a wizard for finding a template or add-on. I had
hoped to have a working model before now but I keep getting distracted.
If people would like to see where I am up to so that they can give
feedback - then let me know and I'll put it on my OOo web page.

[snip]

> >Thus the enormous bloat of the code. I have toyed with the concept of
> redesigning OOo - if anyone is interested I am happy to discuss this
> idea further.
> 
> OOo needs to be redesigned/rewritten, so that it can be Unicode
> Compliant.   If that process starts now, there is an even chance that
> by the time Unicode 6.0 is released, OOo will be Unicode
> compliant.[OOo can not display a third of the Unicode characters.]
> 
I confess that I haven't investigated Unicode compliance. Do you have a
suggestion on where I start investigating Unicode compliance?

My thoughts are more along the lines of making it much easier for the
community to modify code. Having small blocks of code that do a job and
do it well. Use inheritance so that similar pieces of code aren't
replicated in may different places. Redesigning the API to get rid of
redundancy (couple of examples: extend variables in Writer so that they
can be used solely instead of having variables, set references and
bookmarks which all do a similar task; remove tables and have embedded
spreadsheets).

Thanks, Ian


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