Maybe someone can clear this up for me...


It seems either your organization needs the Word97 word break 
algorithms, or it doesn't.

If it doesn't, what's the broughaha about OOXML not specifying what it 
means?

If it does, either Open Office interprets it correctly, or it doesn't.

If Open Office interprets it correctly, what's the problem?

If Open Office doesn't interpret it correctly, you can't use Open Office 
anyway, so you'd be unable to obey the government mandate to use open 
software where available.

It seems like this whole "the spec is underspecified in small ways" 
complaining is just really "we don't want MS to have a standard here 
because the point was to keep people from using MS software."

There's never going to be enough information in the spec to reproduce 
what the software does, or the spec would be bigger than the source code 
of the software.

Something else nobody has answered for me: Does the ODF spec actually 
specify the line breaking algorithms and how they're applied in 
different settings?

(Note: I'm not disagreeing the spec is incomplete. I'm not disagreeing 
that MS has f'ed up the ISO with their party games. But on the other 
hand, is anyone really surprised when something like ISO goes up against 
something like MS they lose?)

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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