On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Jos van den Oever <jos.van.den.oe...@kogmbh.com> wrote: > Hello Calligra-ers, > > As you may or may not know, I represent KDE in the committee that specifies > the > OpenDocument Format. We have a weekly telephone call for the core TC in which > I and Thorsten Zachmann participate. In addition there is a weekly call for > the work group on change tracking and a biweekly call on interoperablility. > > This is the overview page: > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/ > Apart from telephone discussions topics are discussed on the mailing lists > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/ > Proposals for the specification are recorded and discussed here: > http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE > > ODF 1.2 is mostly done and will become a standard in the near future. This > means we want people to suggest new ideas, improvements and enhancements to > put in the next ODF standard. If there are things you would like to see > changed in ODF now is the time to speak up. As TC contact, Thorsten and I can > put your proposals in the 'specification changes' system, but everyone can > also > mail the public list: > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/ > > I would like first to let people in Calligra brainstorm about what is feasible > and desirable. Ideas can be put as a reply to this mail. Changes do not have > to be features, they can also be clarifications or simplifications.
A few ideas (my knowledge of the technical side of the format is very limited so these are mostly based on features, so I apologize if these suggestions are nonsensical or already implemented): 1. As you are probably aware, there is currently a GSOC project for a Calligra-based single-canvas presentation system. However, it is not based on any ODF format. Either creating such a format, or including the components needed to support it in an existing format, would be nice. These are getting increasingly popular online, there was one at a conference I went to last year, and several at the same conference this year. 2. Support for embedding fonts, if this isn't there already. I have had problems with missing fonts severely messing up document formating. 3. Minimum required image format support, with proper default values. Ideally SVG and PNG. 4. Support for an "invisible line break" [1]. Currently, at least in LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, styles end at a line break. Other things depend on line breaks as well, such as what parts of a captain are included in figure lists. This makes it impossible to finely control where styles begin and end or what is displayed in a table of contents or figure list. This mark would be interpeted by styles, tables of contents, and figure lists as a line break, but would not trigger a real line break in the text as far as the user can see. This may be an issue with the LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org implementation, though. 5. Support for aligning text vertically within a document, header, footer, frame, and so on. This may already exist and it just isn't implemented in LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org. 6. When tracking changes, track replacements as something separate from insertions and deletions. Once again, this may already exist but isn't implemented in LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/users@libreoffice.org/msg05286.html _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
