Re: Joe's OA Clearinghouse

[jcg <jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca>]

Such an application exists: Open Office stores all its files in zipped
"flat"  XML files. It works on Windows as well as Linux and (I believe)
there is a Mac version.

http://www.openoffice.org

And it reads MS documents pretty well; it also produces them pretty well.

Best,

Jean-Claude Gu�don

On Tue August 3 2004 05:09 pm, Pete Goldie wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>" I would suggest the future goal be how to get open standard for word
>>processing texts.  The problem is simple: can you name two people who
>>really like Microsoft Word?"
>>
>>Richard Feinman
>
> FINALLY!  Unless I missed some other wise person making the essential
> point that the current high cost of electronic publishing begins with the
> use of lame and non-standards-based word processors, we should all welcome
> Professor Feinman's comment for hitting the bull's eye on his first try.
>
> For all the words sacrificed at all of the conferences and on all of the
> discussion lists on how to advance electronic publishing, very few have
> seriously addressed lack of a decent, *free*, open source XML-based word
> processor.  If I was in charge of a granting foundation or tax dollars, I
> would make the highest priority the creation of such an appplication,
> release it on the STM world, sit back and watch the revolution finally
> take place.
>
> * Pete Goldie, Ph.D.
> * Internet: pg@lbin.com