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Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 18 August 2003

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    Subject: Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 18 August 2003


    MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
    AUGUST, THE 18TH, 2003, 3PM GMT – 4PM GMT
    
    Attendees
    ---------
    Doug Alberg <doug.alberg@boeing.com>, Boeing
    Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    Simon Davis <simond@naa.gov.au>, National Archive of Australia
    Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>, Society of Biblical Literature
    Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
    David Faure <faure@kde.org>
    Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Arbortext
    Paul Langille <paul.langille@corel.com>, Corel
    Tom Magliery <Tom.Magliery@corel.com>, Corel
    Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
    
    
    Acceptance of Minutes of the August, the 11th meeting
    ----------------------------------------------------
    - The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.
    
    Action Items
    ------------
    - Phil Boutros: create proposal for unifying change tracking in text and 
    table documents
       - in progress
    - Paul Langille: additional chart format comparisons
       - in progress
    - Paul Langille,Daniel Vogelheim: proposal for business charts
       - in progress
    - Michael Brauer: Proposal for including CSS2's @font-face into the 
    OASIS Open Office specification.
       - in progress
    - Daniel Vogelheim: Clarify the usage of the <style:map> element.
       - done, see
         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00016.html
    
    
    Discussion of Work Package 5.2 Style Basics
    -------------------------------------------
    Daniel Vogelheim has clarified the usage of the <style:map> element on 
    the TC's mailing list. The TC unanimously agreed to the specification of 
    this element and closed the discussion of the Work Package 5.2.
    
    Discussion of Work Package 5.3 Style Properties
    -----------------------------------------------
    The TC discussed text formatting properties as described in section 3.10 
    of the OpenOffice.org XML specification. The discussion was based on 
    various suggestions made on the TC's mailing list, see
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200308/msg00025.html
    for details.
    
    The style:use-window-font-color attribute has been clarified on the 
    list. The TC unanimously agreed to it.
    
    The TC discussed the text decoration attributes style:text-underline and 
    style:text-crossing-out. The values of both attributes currently contain 
    the underline or crossing out line style and its width simultaneously. 
    Specifying the line line style and its width by separate attributes 
    seems to be reasonable and is already the case for CSS3. Although there 
    are currently no plans for an XSL-FO existing that contains the new CSS3 
    formatting properties, the TC unanimously agreed to rework the 
    specifications for underlining and crossing-out based on CSS3. David 
    Faure will create a proposal for this.
    
    The TC further agreed that the specifications for crossing-out and 
    underlining should be enhanced by attributes that specify a character or 
    text string that is used for crossing-out/underlining instead of a line. 
    For these characters or texts, a further attribute should exist that 
    references a text style that is used to draw the 
    underlining/crossing-out characters. Michael Brauer will create a 
    proposal for this.
    
    The TC further unanimously agreed to add an attribute 
    "style:text-auto-align" that takes the value "true" or "false". If the 
    attribute's value is "true", applications are allowed to recalculate the 
    text alignment of a paragraph based on its content whenever the content 
    changes. The current text alignment still is specified by the 
    fo:text-align attribute.
    
    The TC discussed the specification of tab stops, that is, the 
    <style:tab-stop> element. The TC unanimously agreed to add attributes to 
    this element that specify the line style used for leading similar to the 
    line style attributes used for text decoration. The TC also agreed to 
    enhance the attribute that takes a leading character to take a text 
    string. Michael Brauer will create a proposal for this.
    
    The TC clarified that the style:keep-with-next and 
    style:keep-with-previous attributes in fact have to be part of the 
    fo-namespace, and that style:line-break, style:punctuation-wrap and 
    style:text-autospace attributes are paragraph rather than text 
    attributes. The style:line-break attribute has been clarified on the 
    mailing list.
    
    The TC further discussed the specification of the various style:*-asian 
    and style:*-complex attributes. On the one hand, these attributes are 
    described as fo:*-asian and fo:*-complex in the OpenOffice.org XML 
    specification, what obviously is wrong. On the other hand, these 
    attributes are difficult to process by XSLT style sheets. Michael Brauer 
    will prepare a proposal for an enhanced specification of these attributes.
    
    
    New Action Items
    ----------------
    - David Faure: Proposal for text decoration attributes based on CSS3
    - Michael Brauer: Proposal for underlining/crossing-out based on 
    characters or text rather than lines.
    - Michael Brauer: Proposal for line styles for tab stop definitions.
    - Michael Brauer: Proposal for enhanced style:*-asian/style:*-complex 
    attributes.
    
    
    Michael Brauer
    
    OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair
    
    


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