Re: [icon-users] ODT format output
- From: Mike Hobbs <mike.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:50:48 +0100
No doubt my needs are not representative of the majority, but
reason I'd like ODT output is that I devised a system of
generating test specs and reports where multiple contributors
can use the document processor of their choice to create the
component test cases. They save the document in HTML format
and my program parses the HTML, extracts the relevant data
and creates a master spec or report in a consistent format
regardless of the method of source file creation. Yeh, it
'knows' about many of the HTML quirks these document processors
generate!
It works well. However, being the person responsible for
providing the templates I have to produce TechWriter, MSWord
and OpenOffice versions. To do that I have to save from TW
in both TW and MSWord formats, then load the Word file into
OO to create the ODT version. If I could do it all from TW
my life would be easier. PDF was a great step forward, but
of course its not an editable format.
Importing ODT would also be extremely useful. However, no
matter how many improvements TW gets, it seems Microsoft
jumps ten steps ahead in producing documents that fail to
load correctly in TW, OO, or indeed even earlier versions
of Word! And, as Martin said, OOXML is different to ODT
so even when you thought technology was converging with
XML, it wasn't! Ho hum.
--
Mike Hobbs
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