Il giorno gio, 10-02-2005 alle 12:57 -0500, Bruce D'Arcus ha scritto: > > The status of things is that we're slowing getting the pieces in place:
[...] > The critical next step is that we need to get Sun to dedicate resources > to make it possible to bring all of the above into a finished > application. Without that, nothing will happen. > > The good news is that we've gotten encouragement from them, and so are > optimistic this will happen. > > We're trying to design things in ways that they not only improve free > bibliographic software, but also open it up (though open standards, > interfaces, etc.). This sounds great, really great. A little sidenote about Word+Endnote: it's a combination very popular in the anglo-saxon academic community, but, AFAIK, not much in the rest of the world; actually, I can't think of any of my colleagues using it, it's just Word and good old bibliographic lists. This means that if OOo manages to come up with an equivalent or superior solution, that would become an instant selling point for it for the rest of the world. I'm willing to go to my University with a loudspeaker to lure people away from Word ;) Another thought: it would be nice to have a very flexible XLST engine, to make it easy to exchange biblio data with other formats. Apart from the obvious DocBook, TEI is what I work with and it's becoming quite common with academics (at least those dealing with texts :) Ciao -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
