OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  ODF 1.2 proposals

    Posted 11-27-2006 14:14
    Dear TC members,
    
    I have already announced a few weeks ago that Sun's OpenOffice.org team 
    will provide us with a couple of proposals for ODF 1.2. Below is a first 
    (and maybe still incomplete) list of what we can expect:
    
    General:
    - A proposal for supporting RFC4646, which is the successor of RF3066,
       to specify languages and countries, etc.. This actually effects the
       use of the fo:language and fo:country attributes
    
    Speadsheets:
    - A proposal to extend cell addresses so that full spreadsheet rows and
       columns can get accessed.
    - A proposal for additional operators for table:filter-condition.
    - A proposal for a new sort option "natural sort".
    
    The spreadsheet team further supports David Wheeler's proposal for named 
    expressions that are local to a sheet: 
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200608/msg00001.html
    
    Chart:
    - A proposal for an attribute to sort charts by the values on the x axis
       for display.
    
    Text documents:
    - A couple of proposals for numbering and outline numbering. These
       should be aligned with Florian's and David's proposals.
    - A proposal for provide new attribute value to allow formulas to be
       aligned 'baseline-to-baseline' with text.
    
    The Writer team has further indicated an interest in some of the 
    enhancements that Florian has suggested.
    
    Graphical Objects:
    - A proposal for supporting the "draw:ole-draw-aspect" for all kind of
       embedded objects.
    
    The Impress team further has shown interest in supporting us with the 
    definition of tables in presentation.
    
    Database
    - A proposal for a “database front-end" document type. (this will be a
       revised proposal of 
    http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/14336/05-06-03-proposal00050.
    
    Best regards
    
    Michael