The OOo Bibliographic Project (OOoBib) is pleased to announce the release of its development plans. The plans are available at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_talk:Dnw . We have placed our plans on the wiki site as we hope developers will contribute by adding information to assist others and to add detail to the plans.
Our current objective is to design and build OOoBib version 0.1, which will contain the most basic functions for an usable bibliographic facility with: 1.bibliographic formatting support for: * complex features required of commonly used citation styles like APA and Chicago * automatically switching between potentially radically different citation styles (ie. footnote to in-text) 2.a data model that can support a broader range of reference types 3.integration with remote databases We are, in fact ready to go with the first task in that plan which is to modify the Writer document-read and document-save modules to support the new OpenDocument enhanced citation format, and to implement the citation and bibliography changes to the OOo Writer save file (in Open Document format) accepted by the OpenDocument Technical Committee. OOoBib offers many interesting opportunities for developers to become involved with a range of cutting edge technologies, covering: Internet, metadata, databases, and XML XSLT and OpenOffice. Please consider if you would like to help us in the development of this exiting project. We especially need the assistance of a C++ programmer to implement the first essential changes to Writer. When these basic changes are in place we can proceed with application prototyping in OOo Basic, Java or Python. When we have designed, built and tested the prototypes and they have been accepted by the OOo community we intend to rebuild them in C++ so that they can become part of the core OpenOffice application. -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
