[OS X TeX] Re: OT: Pages from iWork

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Wed Feb 9 17:26:01 CET 2005


Le 9 févr. 05, à 12:19, maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl a écrit :

> On a related rant: currently the text system in Mac OS X uses rtf for
> styled text. I'd love it if they changed that to an XML based format, 
> and
> offer easy and integrated XML validation (XML Schema's and/or DTD) in 
> the
> process. That would make it a lot easier to write applications that can
> easily and reliably exchange data.

It would be nice, too, if the Pages XML scheme was compatible with 
OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org/>, and in particular with the 
OpenDocument format 
<http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office>, 
which would make it compatible with OpenOffice.org.

Bruno Voisin

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