Searching for Openness in Microsoft's OOXML and Finding Contradictions (Groklaw)

Posted Jan 25, 2007 12:30 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)
Parent article: Searching for Openness in Microsoft's OOXML and Finding Contradictions (Groklaw)

It's beyond ridicolous to have a "standard" that contains items such as:

lineWrapLikeWord6 (Emulate Word 6.0 Line Wrapping for East Asian Text)
mwSmallCaps (Emulate Word 5.x for Macintosh Small Caps Formatting)
shapeLayoutLikeWW8 (Emulate Word 97 Text Wrapping Around Floating Objects)
truncateFontHeightsLikeWP6 (Emulate WordPerfect 6.x Font Height Calculation)
useWord2002TableStyleRules (Emulate Word 2002 Table Style Rules)
useWord97LineBreakRules (Emulate Word 97 East Asian Line Breaking)
wpJustification (Emulate WordPerfect 6.x Paragraph Justification)
shapeLayoutLikeWW8 (Emulate Word 97 Text Wrapping Around Floating Objects)

I mean, the standard doesn't even try to explain how to do any of these things. All it says is: "Do it like Word 5.x for Macintosh used to do it.", which doesn't help at all. Specifying the behaviour also wouldn't help much, the standard is *already* 6000 pages.