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. The standard would, of course, have to be a complete specification. And from that specification there'd be no problem in writing processors for Linux or tweaking ones such as koffice and StarOffice that already exist. This is not a pro-Microsoft proposal. Quite the contrary. It's more like jiu-jitsu on their corporate strategy. Paul