OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

OASIS Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 17-Mar-03

  • 1.  OASIS Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 17-Mar-03

    Posted 03-21-2003 13:01
    MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
    FEBRUARY, THE 17TH, 2003, 7PM GMT - 7:50PM GMT
    
    Attendees
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    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
    Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
    David Faure <faure@kde.org>
    Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Arbortext
    Jason Harrop <jharrop@speedlegal.com>, SpeedLegal
    Paul Langille <paul.langille@corel.com>, Corel
    Tom Magliery <Tom.Magliery@corel.com>, Corel
    Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
    Daniel Vogelheim <daniel.vogelheim@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    
    Hartti Suomela <hartti.suomela@nokia.com>, Nokia (Observer)
    
    Acceptance of Minutes of the March, the 10th meeting
    ------------------------------------------------------
    - The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.
    
    Action Items
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    - Daniel: Send link to updated TC spec/schemes maintained on OpenOffice.org
       - done
    - Daniel: Suggest names for genre elements and attribute for master docs
       - done, contained in the spec
    - Editors: suggest Relax-NG schema changes according to the meeting
    decisions
        - in progress
    Michael: Make proposal for list/numbered paragraphs
        - done, see list
    
    
    Discussion of Work Package 3.2 Indices and text sections
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    - The TC clarified that
       - text sections are not directly related to page breaks, i.e., a
         new text sections does not introduce a page break.
       - indices and table-of-contents are a special kind of sections that
         have a generated content.
    - The TC unanimously agreed to keep the OpenOffice.org specification for 
    text sections and indices.
    
    
    Discussion of Work Package 3.3 Inside Paragraph
    -----------------------------------------------
    - The TC started to discuss this topic, but postponed any decision to 
    the next meeting, because it was not part of the agenda. Discussion 
    points were
       - the requirement of a back tabulator. An example will be posted to
         the list by Paul Langille.
       - the difference between foot- and endnotes. An explanation will be
         posted to the list by Michael Brauer.
       - rubies. An explanation will be posted to the list by Daniel
         Vogelheim.
    
    
    New Action Items
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    - Paul Langille: post example for back tabulator
    - Michael Brauer: post explanation of foot- and endnote differences.
    - Daniel Vogelheim: post explanation of rubies.
    
    
    Michael Brauer
    
    OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair