Re: Not reinventing the wheel ...

On 11/14/06, Stéphane Téletchéa <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry to not follow you argument but i've been on their mailing list
> long time ago (around 2002 IIRC) and this feature is *far* from being
> the priority. We're now close to 2007 and this is still a work in
> progress. What we need is somthing working for the moment, and may be
> another implementation later if they provide a better way.

The question is, is it really worth Markus' effort to do this in the short-run?

As for the state of OOoBib, it has indeed been slow coming. The truth
is we need file format-level changes and then for some changes to be
supported in Writer. Because this work requires extensive knowledge of
both C++ and the Writer code, it can only really be done by Sun
developers.

For the longest time, Sun didn't really care about our project.
However, things have changed recently. For one thing, I'm working with
the ODF TC on a new metadata system for the file format. This is sort
of similar to Microsoft's Custom Schema support (which they are using
to implement the new citation support in Word 2007/Open XML). For this
reason, Sun sees it as a mechanism to add richer custom solution
support, and so citations are for them a perfect use case to build
around.

> Second that does not solve the Word problem, bibus does.

Does Bibus support the new citation stuff in Word 2007?

I'd say if Markus wants to experiment with the Bibus interfaces, he
should do it. But it sounds like he has the same opinion that the
KWord lead I talked to recently has: better to think of a more generic
solution.

My suggestion would be to see if we can engage a larger discussion
that includes the Zotero developers about how best to move forward on
this. They are explicitly targeting Word 2007.

Bruce

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