Thanks for these reminders. I was watching odftoolkit a few years ago. Wolf Halton Mobile/Text 678-687-6104
-- Sent from my iPhone. Creative word completion courtesy of Apple, Inc. > On Jan 13, 2017, at 23:05, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi - > > If support for Microsoft Office formats is desired and Java is not a problem > then Apache has a 15 year old project called Apache POI. Also, Apache > ODFToolkit is sitting in the Incubator for 5.5 years now with one developer - > Svante. > > Conversion between ODF and OOXML is the only way to ultimate document > freedom. Institutions cannot change - documents need to be write once and use > anywhere. > > There is a way if there is a will. > > Regards, > Dave > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 13, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Peter Kovacs <legi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> +1 :-D >> >> I will pick maybe some of the stuff up. >> >> >>> On 13.01.2017 21:38, Chuck Davis wrote: >>> Toki, I'm very glad to hear SOMEBODY has imagination! :) >>> >>> It seems we've had quite a number of people coming here lately (like a >>> professor someplace is sending them to get involved in open source) to >>> state they want to get involved. I hope they and their professors are >>> taking notes from your material! You have some very good ideas. >>> >>> Thanks for being specific. >>> >>>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:08 PM, toki <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 01/13/2017 03:15 PM, Chuck Davis wrote: >>>>> >>>>> but I fail to see it in my use cases. >>>> As far as word processing is concerned, one can make a case that since >>>> either WordStar 3.3 or WordPerfect 5.1, the proffered functionality is >>>> overkill for more than 90% of the user base. >>>> >>>> As far as spreadsheets go, a case can be made that for anything that >>>> requires more sophistication than than Lotus 1 2 3 version 4.0, it would >>>> be more appropriate to use R & SQLite. >>>> >>>>> and start rolling out really useful features >>>> For Write, as a starting point, incorporate the features, functionality, >>>> and capabilities, of both WordStar 3.3 & WordPerfect 5.1, that are not >>>> currently present in AOo. >>>> >>>> For Base: >>>> Step One: Include SQLite; >>>> Step Two: Provide a UI that non-database specialists understand well >>>> enough, to be able to intuitively create forms and do searches; >>>> Step Three: Purpose-specific addons. Templates which include Forms, >>>> macros, etc, that makes such obvious and easy for all to utilize. By way >>>> of example: >>>> * Project Management; >>>> * Genealogy Records; >>>> * Cookbook, including nutritional data; >>>> * Contact Management; >>>> >>>> For Calc: >>>> Step One: Include R as part of the core install; >>>> Step Two: Purpose-specific addons. Templates which include macros, etc, >>>> that makes utilization obvious and easy for all. By way of example: >>>> * Financial Spread Betting; >>>> * Investment Analysis; >>>> * Earthquake Prediction; >>>> >>>> ### >>>> >>>> Something that sort of surprises me, is that AOo hasn't worked with SVN, >>>> to have "Save to SVN" as a standard feature. (The extension that >>>> provided this functionality is completely broken for LibO, and appears >>>> to be broken for AOo 4.1.3.) >>>> >>>> "Save to SVN" might look arcane, and not useful to anybody. As a >>>> practical matter, it offers much better change control, and greater roll >>>> back functionality, than anything currently offered for any office suite >>>> --- if it does everything in the background, with minimal >>>> user-configuration and no end-user integration required. >>>> >>>> ### >>>> >>>> Project Management is the most visible hole in FLOSS office suites. In >>>> theory, a set of extensions and templates could provide this functionality. >>>> >>>> A second hole is the ability to wrap spreadsheets, documents, images, >>>> etc into a single package. IOW, the functionality offered by Microsoft >>>> Office Binder. >>>> >>>>> I don't have enough imagination to know what those might be. >>>> For the most part, you're looking at specific use-cases. >>>> >>>> As one example, "Print to Moon". (Explaining this requires an off-topic >>>> essay.) >>>> >>>> Built-in speech recognition would be a second example. >>>> >>>> Self-voicing functionality would be a third example. >>>> >>>> jonathon >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> >>>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >
