fields -- file format issues


Subject: fields -- file format issues
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 19:43:38 CDT


Before we settle on an implementation mechanism, we'll need to settle some
basic issues about how we're going to mark up various fields.

  Justin's enumeration of Word's fields
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  http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/January/0068.html

  Questions about dates, new values, and namespaces
  -------------------------------------------------
  http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/January/0074.html

In addition, we had a more focused conversation about how to represent the
names of various field types.

  Capitalization convention for field names
  -----------------------------------------
  http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0279.html

  Sam: capitalization examples
  -----------------------------
  http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0283.html

  Aaron: use spaces in the UI
  ----------------------------
  http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0293.html

  Keith -- RTF is all caps
  ------------------------
  http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0316.html

  No punctuation, maybe localize
  ------------------------------
  http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0320.html

Both issues need to be driven towards closure, which I don't expect to be
very difficult.

Paul



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