[osis-core] Word 2003 as OSIS editor -- questions

[Patrick Durusau]

Harry,

Sounds like you are making great progress! Hurray!

I second your opinion about going to XML-FO for the formatting. Clearly 
superior to CSS.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Harry Plantinga wrote:
> Andrew Proper and I are working on configuring Microsoft Word 2003 to 
> edit OSIS 2.0 documents. The OSIS-to-WordML and reverse transformations 
> are mostly done, but we have come to the point where we really have to 
> decide how to store the formatting.
> 
> What do you think should be used to store the formatting, CSS or 
> XML-FO?  The latter is richer and would make OSIS-to-PDF easier; the 
> former would make OSIS-to-HTML easier. The XML-FO route also enables one 
> to check the validity of the formatting with an XML parser.
> 
> My inclination is to use XML-FO since it is easer to validate and easier 
> to convert XML-FO to CSS than vice versa. Any other opinions?
> 
> Also, is it possible to embed the stylesheet in a single file somehow? 
> XSLTs can only generate a single output file, so saving a word document 
> in OSIS format would be easiest if it could be done as a single file.
> 
> Also, do we want to save every possible bit of formatting, or is there 
> some we should ignore -- e.g. page margins? Woudl it be sufficient, for 
> example, to maintain paragraph margins and indent, font, style, size, 
> line spacing, and alignment?
> 
> - Images
> 
> Word can embed images in saved documents. Do we want to try to do the 
> same? There are some problems with images in separate files -- namely, 
> that we don't know of a way to get the current directory in XSLT, so we 
> can't open Word's temporary directory to find the image files to load.
> 
> Unless we get this resolved, images will have to be linked manually in 
> this version of the editor.
> 
> - Document Templates
> 
> We're currently planning to create OSIS templates for the following 
> document types. Any suggested additions or deletions?
> 
> bible
> commentary
> semron
> dramatic text
> daily
> dictionary
> theological treatise
> fiction
> 
> Are there any well-marked samples embodying recommended practices? 
> Lacking guidance, we'll take our best shot based on the documentation, 
> but this is an issue the osis-core group really ought to address as a 
> whole.
> 
> Harry Plantinga
> (with Andrew Proper)
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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