Hello, I agree that the bibliographic functionning need not be within OpenOffice, however just to remind you : Zotero is not the only "working" example out there , Bibus integrates nicely with OO and Word without using the OO integrated database.
Oliver On 6 Dec 2007 at 20:53, Morten Omholt Alver wrote: Date sent: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:53:05 +0100 From: "Morten Omholt Alver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: dev@bibliographic.openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users-biblio] JabRef - OpenOffice integration > On 05/12/2007, Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2007 9:21 AM, Morten Omholt Alver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The other thing is whether OpenOffice will support CSL, or if we need > > > to transform it ourselves into OO's bibliography structure? I > > > understand that this could possibly be a difficult question to answer > > > at the moment. > > > > I have talked with the ODF TC about formally including CSL in the ODF > > spec, so that may happen at some point. But I would consider the > > existing support in OOo and ODF as legacy that will at some point get > > deprecated. Indeed, Zotero completely bypasses it now. > > That's an interesting thought. So Zotero creates and formats its own > bibliography field without even touching the built-in bibliography > features? I hadn't really considered that option, but I can imagine > that this wouldn't be too difficult. It would also let us bypass the > limitations of the bibliography system. I need to learn more about > using the UNO API... > > -- > Morten > _________________________________________________________ Oliver Brendel UMR Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestiere INRA - Centre de Nancy 54280 Champenoux France [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL 0033/383/394100 FAX /394022 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]