Mathias Bauer wrote:
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
I respect bruce's editorial concept however I think the writting is a
bit biass toward word. One of the things is that the description of
the problems weren't that indepth as in why it fails.
No, I think he is quite fair though I would weight some points
differently. For me the highlight of Word 2007 clearly is the way it
works with templates/themes. It has a lot of them and it uses them quite
elegantly and without bothering users with technical details. But that's
only me. :-)
Let's look on the main points where Bruce thinks that Writer falls short:
- cross references
- grammar checking
- templates
- outlining
- bibliography
All are points where we are working on or have planned to do so!
Cross reference improvements should be ready in 3.0, the infrastructure
for Grammar Checking hopefully also (we will see). Then it's up to the
Grammar Checker vendors to integrate their software into OOo. The API
won't be very complicated.
Right now Autocorrect can do much of grammar checking, it will
capitolize the first word of sentences and much more, probably half or
more of all the things needed for a good grammar checker are possible
just using the current capablilities of Autocorrect.
Improvements in the area of templates or template handling are under
discussion, see e.g. some of my blogs in blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS.
Bibliography will be addressed when ODF1.2 is ready.
Outlining still is waiting for some layout separations and surely will
not be ready in 3.0. But it is planned for the time after that.
Ciao,
Mathias
