OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

[office] OpenDocument TC Work-Call Meeting Minutes 2006-03-27

  • 1.  [office] OpenDocument TC Work-Call Meeting Minutes 2006-03-27

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    Attendees
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    Nathaniel Borenstein, IBM
    Robert Weir, IBM
    Yue Ma, IBM
    David Faure, KDE
    Peter Korn, Sun Microsystems
    Lars Oppermann, Sun Microsystemms
    Florian Reuter, Sun Microsystems
    Gary Edwards, OpenDocument Foundation
    Daniel Carrera, OpenDocument Foundation
    
    
    Acceptance of Minutes from Last Call
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    The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes from the last
    work call
    
    
    Action Items
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    Michael, David: settings - ongoing
    Lars, Mime types: sent to IANA, wait another week for reply, than ask
    again cc Nathaniel
    
    Discussion
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    tables in presentations
    
    peter: information must be available, so the useragent can know
    something is a table
    also for apps, that are making an alternative presentations (e.g.
    talking book)
    needs to know, what is a table-header, what is a row and so on
    
    michael, currently no tables for presentations
    
    lars, what about text:frame/table:table
    
    michael: for interop, they should be allowed anywhere
    
    florian: difference in ODF can only contain text (paragraphs).
    In powerpoint, they can contain shapes, it's more like a grouping mechanism
    
    yue ma:  table must be available in file format, application can chose
    any rendering
    
    peter: how do I create a table in a OOo presentation
    
    michael: feature not available there
    only way to have table in presentation is through embedding.
    everything else is just drawing shapes/groups (e.g. powerpoint import)
    
    peter: why not reuse spreadsheet
    
    michael: explain? spreadsheet as special drawing object? full
    spreadsheet as embedded object?
    
    peter: the latter
    
    florian: important issue is roundtrip with MS formats (grid layout). If
    that is sufficient for
    A11Y, we would like to implement it that way
    
    peter, no objection to that
    
    ACTION: florian to deliver proposal for table/grid in presentations and
    A11Y to see whether it fulfills the requirement
    
    peter: also looking at navigation (keyboard navigation) in A11Y (out of
    scope) would come up with an advise document for implementors.
    (focus-next et al...)
    
    peter: e.g. there are different approaches to create a list and one of
    them is not persisted in the file format
    
    michael: there is a set of buttons for list level and one for indent...
    
    peter: this is another thing the A11Y is looking into (advise for
    authors)... Make it difficult for authors to do the wrong thing
    malte is looking into OOo issues
    
    michael: david, sent item re default style for table rows and cols
    spec leaves open whether this also applied to automatically created cells
    do not have an answer yet
    we should clarify this in the spec
    
    peter: I have another question re tables
    what is the time line for tables (florians action)
    what version of ODF would it go in
    
    florian: A11Y wants it fast, right?
    
    peter: we are dividing our work, doing things first that we see as being
    competition critical and we are adressing issues that do not have this
    competitive impact later we hope to have comp features in place (and 
    maybe even implemented) by end of year
    
    michael: we can get an OASIS approved spec by years end
    full approval takes at least four month,
    last two weeks are voting
    we don't want to have this in december
    so we need to start the process in july
    
    peter: so we want to have tables in what we put forward in july
    
    michael: if there are comments that need to be addressed during the
    review, the date can slip, and so there is no gurantee to have it ready
    by years end
    
    peter: thats why we are aiming at june
    
    michael: we in the TC only care about the file format.
    we need certifications of usage of the standard in order to become an
    oasis standard.
    so we need people that are committed to do implementations.
    
    david: what is status on - nested lists/numbered paragraphs
    ACTION: florian to follow up with writer.
    
    
    
    New Action Items
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    florian to deliver proposal for table/grid in presentations and
    A11Y to see whether it fulfills the requirement
    florian to follow up with writer on nested lists/numbering of paragraphs
    > ACTION: florian to follow up with writer.
    
    
    
    


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