On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Michael Meeks wrote:
On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 15:27 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
unfortunately this would have less benefits than you imagine, because of
the way xmloff writes automatic styles: they are generated anew on every
export, in a non-deterministic order
Wow - how non-deterministic ? randomly shuffled or ... ? ;-)
, which results in huge spurious diffs... (at least for Writer)
Interesting; the order is really not based on the order that the
different intersection of styles appear in the document ? I suspect this
is something that a number of people will want to improve for all those
funky "store flat odf in git" things :-)
It's a worthy goal, but I can imagine that those people capable of using
git might want to write documentation/text in a lightweigth markup
language instead, like AsciiDoc and convert it to ODF when producing final
output.
E.g. http://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf
Now that we have native (embedded) SVG support in 3.5, the toolchain
becomes a lot more interesting, considering there are some nice
ascii-to-image conversion plugins that create nice diagrams and charts
from asciiart. So that changes to images become humanly parseable too ;-)
E.g. http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc-ditaa-filter/
http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc-plantuml/
http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc-aafigure-filter/
http://volnitsky.com/project/mplw/
http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc-mscgen-filter/
http://powerman.name/asciidoc/
Also the way LibreOffice is naming styles by default is suboptimal, not
using internal names but instead using the visible name and converting
e.g. spaces to _20_. This will get you ugly names for:
Heading 1 -> Heading_20_1
Text body -> Text_20_body
ODF does support internal names that are different than the visible
representation so there's no need to retain the space in the internal
name. Although I can see why it was implemented like this, I personally
don't really like it. I wonder what other ODF producers do in this case
though.
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