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Re: Office 2003 Beta

Can't tell from your email if you're grinning...

DW Emory wrote:
> I thought it would be worthwhile to post this latest word (from 
> slashdot) about Office 2003/XP-XML

> system providers." Apparently, all formatting and presentation 
> information is removed from the XML. Furthermore, Office's new 

I read this out to my little workgroup and they started running around 
and cheering, shouting things like 'What's happened? Microsoft's done 
something properly at last?'. Surely the point of markup is that you can 
transfer material without formatting and presentation information?

Now, typically in Frame I might maintain two EDDs and two templates for 
a document set: one for the authors/editors so the type works on screen, 
the drafts print out with scribbling space, important attribute 
information is printed for checking, etc. The 'publication' 
EDD-and-template set will have different page size and typography, 
different formatting context rules, no visible attributes, etc etc.

Word sounds promising, when we've been bracing ourselves to drop it in 
favour of Open/Star Office...

-- 
Mark Barratt
Text Matters
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fax +44 (0)118 931 3743
email markb@textmatters.com
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