Enrique wrote:
> If you go to macros you are talking about an _application_ > standardising on that has been much more difficult ever. No, I'm talking of a _language_. You can write Python, Perl or many others and, with some obvious exceptions, those scripts will run on different platforms. > For that several software makers MUST agree in a common API. Eh eh... this is one of the things it is necessary to expose. > Even within single companies like Microsoft or Adobe, different > products use different APIs, just because they were created by > different people. Bingo! You are comparing closed source apps with open source ones. Different proprietary products *must* invent different APIs to lock in users. FOSS ones, we are told, need no such tricks to survive. > It is rather impossible that an .odt file may contain a macro > functional at OOo, KOffice or whatever. please let me know what you think of my reply to Daniel, where I talk of a set of python functions etc.... Thanks, Marco --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
