Paul Abrahams wrote:
Rachel Greenham wrote:
[The distributed document] needs to be editable?
You're fscked then. :-) Even Word isn't safe to hand around Windows users in that case, and different HTML editors will make a royal hash of things. Wait for OpenOffice to come up with the goods and then campaign for wide usage.
I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear about what I was proposing: adoption of the MS Word format, but *not* MS Word itself, as a FIPS.
No, that's a really terrible idea. The Word format itself is little more than a memory dump of Word's workspace; that's why other software (and for that matter other versions of Word) has such a problem with it. XML is the way to go here - hence OpenOffice being a good thing to push if actual official Standards are to be recommended. -- Rachel