gnomeweb-wml r5786 - trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8

[mortenw svn gnome org]

Author: mortenw
Date: Tue Jan 29 02:22:45 2008
New Revision: 5786
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?rev=5786&view=rev

Log:
Add odf statement.



Modified:
   trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml
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--- trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml	Tue Jan 29 02:22:45 2008
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 To this end, we have improved and automated our test suite.</p>
 
 <h3>Improved and Extended File Format Support:</h3>
-We have improved our support for various file formats:
+<p>We have improved our support for various file formats:</p>
 <div id="fileformats">
 <table class="contributors">
   <thead>
@@ -136,8 +136,22 @@
 	<td>Better function import.</td>
     </tr>
   </tbody>
-</table>
-</div>
+</table></div>
+<p>The Gnumeric team does not envision using
+the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument";>OpenDocument
+Format</a> as its native format.</p>
+<p>The <em>spreadsheet part</em> of ODF, in its current form, is ill
+defined and has many, many problems.  For example: (1) there is no
+meaningful discussion of what functions a spreadsheet should support
+and what they should do.  Without that, there is little point in
+trying to move a spreadsheet from one program to another; (2) there is
+no provision for sharing formulas between cells; (3) there is no
+implementation -- writing an ODF exporter consists of
+reverse-engineering <a href="http://www.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice</a>
+to see what parts of the standard it can handle.</p>
+<p>We may revisit this decision in the future, should the situation
+improve.  In the meantime, we will strive to write a reasonable
+importer and exporter.</p>
 
 <h2>Getting Gnumeric</h2>
 <p>Gnumeric 1.8 is <a
@@ -173,8 +187,7 @@
     <tr><td>J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)</td><td>1.4 series maintainer</td></tr>
     <tr><td>sum1</td><td>QA Sadist</td></tr>
   </tbody>
-</table>
-<p>Other recent contributors include:
+</table></div><p>Other recent contributors include:
 Oliver Burnett-Hall,
 GÃtz Waschk,
 Hib Eris,
@@ -188,7 +201,7 @@
 Luciano Miguel Wolf,
 Nick Lamb,
 and
-Philo Vivero.</p></div>
+Philo Vivero.</p>
 <p>Gnumeric relies heavily on other projects:
 the <a href="http://pcre.org/";>Perl Compatible Regular Expression</a> engine,
 <a href="http://www.r-project.org/";>The R Project</a>,