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Where ODF stands in the EU (NewsForge)
Tom Chance
looks at the state of EU Open Document Format adoption in a NewsForge
article.
"A key presentation on the ODF day came from Dr. Barbara Held, who is the Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General of the European Commission Program for Interoperable Delivery of pan-European eGovernment Services to Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (IDABC). Got that? Right. The IDABC basically exists to smooth over the technical problems within the European Union caused by the 25 member states exchanging data. The existence of multiple, incompatible file formats poses a formidable problem for the EU, so the IDABC was tasked with developing a strategy to overcome this."
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Where ODF stands in the EU (NewsForge) Posted Oct 27, 2006 8:09 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] From the article: Third, and most troubling of all, is that the Commission must remain neutral between competing international standards.This of course begs the question of why set up the IDABC organization at all, if it is not allowed to pick a standard. There are practically always several mutually incompatible competing standards in IT.
Where ODF stands in the EU (NewsForge) Posted Oct 27, 2006 8:40 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] At the moment there is only one thing even remotely like what theCommission is looking for, namely ODF, which at least shows up on the ISO's radar screen.
If ODF is not a proper »open standard« because it is controlled by OASIS,
Anselm
Where ODF stands in the EU (NewsForge) Posted Oct 27, 2006 11:49 UTC (Fri) by philips (guest, #937) [Link] I wonder am I alone who struggle with ODF interoperability.
http://slashdot.org/~ThePhilips/journal/147741 &
OO.o apparently doesn't focus much on interoperability with other ODF suits: interoperability with M$Office pays back better.
On other side, KOffice is yet too young to for any interoperability to be considered: feature completeness comes first.
And also fonts problem should deserve special attention: different platforms have different font sets. And that's affect of course the resulting document and how it looks. I yet to find any solution on how can I edit freely document simultaneously under Linux & Windows.
Lots of options Posted Oct 27, 2006 16:36 UTC (Fri) by tony.taylor (guest, #35063) [Link] Well, you could always try LyX. Your fonts are guaranteed to be identical between Linux and MS-Windows, the format is TeX, so is CVS-safe (for revision control), and you don't have to worry about fiddling around with document layout, and you can concentrate entirely on document content. The finished documents are generally beautifully-laid out, as TeX is the generating engine. What more could you need?
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