On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:50 +0200, Peter Nermander wrote: > > Really? Unicode is very well supported these days, and should be the > > default of the majority of text editors. Additionally, I see few issues > > So, can you tell me which editor on my Windows machine will handle unicode?
All of them? I don't know ... MS Word and OO.o certainly, probably WordPad too. I expect even notepad does but I can't be sure. > And > also how do I insert for example an ohmega sign in that program? Start->Programs->Accessories->Character Map, or if the program supports it whatever "insert special" it has. > > with importing OO.o files personally - a template could be supplied with > > all the styles they're allowed to use precreated. > > But how do you prevent people from using "direct" bold and italics in the > test? With difficulty, unfortunately. I'm not convinced there's a technical solution to idiocy and the unwillingness to listen ... sometimes you just have to tell them "if you use bold/italic we'll just ignore it, use our styles" - then ignore bold/italic. I'd consider providing an OO.o macro that they have to use to save the text (say it inserts a marker to indicate it was used to save) that checks for such problems and yells at the user. I don't like macros, but that might be a valid use case for them. > Can that be locket in OO.o? (I've not used it very much, to slow on my > machine, but in MS Office you can use paragraph and character styles the same > way, but there is no way preventing people from pressing Ctrl-B to make their > text bold (and that text will not get a character style but be directly > formatted). Probably do-able with macros. I'd prefer to do it with a pre-save document check though. > That is the main problem. Telling them what they should use is not problem, > the > problem is to prevent the from using other ways to format the text. > > That's why I love using LyX. Probably a custom made SGML or XML DTD would work > too, using for example Amaya as editor > > Using HTML has a very good advantage too: You can use different CSS-files to > try out different formatting, without any changes to the text itself. Yes.... but users seem to have major problems with even the /concept/ of markup, let alone writing it. If you have technical writers / editors, then fine - and you're VERY lucky. For example, half of the journalists here can barely turn on their computers - and frequently "turn off the computer" by turning off the screen. -- Craig Ringer
