[odf-discuss] Haansoft Supports Open Type Documentation Standard

[Michael Findlay]

Thanks, so there are some things missing indeed. I actually hoped it was 
just a misunderstanding of ODF on their side.

Michael

robert_weir at us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> I have a copy of their software package in front of me.  I don't know 
> Korean.  Whenever I'm there I just bow and say "kamsamnida" a lot. 
>  But thumbing through the manual and looking at the pictures, I see 
> some things that I haven't seen in other ODF applications:
>
> 1) Native business charts in the word process.  The way we're 
> accustomed to do it is via embedding.  Embedded an instance of MS 
> Graph via OLE.  But Haansoft supports it natively, so the chart data 
> needs to be part of the file format.  Similarly, they have integrated 
> org charts and flow charts, not as embeddings, but natively.
>
> 2) A more sophisticated level of text shaping, similar to "word art" 
> in MS Word.
>
> 3) Landscape page with text vertical, top to bottom, left to right.  
>
> 4) What appears to be a large set of annotations that can be added to 
> the text, similar to the standard proofreading marks.
>
> 5) Some level of integration with custom schemas
>
> 6) Mathematical notation via LaTeX-like syntax
>
>
> -Rob
> ___________________________
>
> odf-discuss-bounces at opendocumentfellowship.com wrote on 12/18/2007 
> 06:48:07 AM:
>
> > Haansoft Supports Open Type Documentation Standard
> >
> > According to
> > 
> <http://www.zdnet.co.kr/etc/eyeon/enterprise/0,39036961,39164305,00.htm>
> > Haansoft (which I believe is a major Korean Office suite developer) is
> > planning to support ODF and OOXML at the end of 2009.
> >
> > All nice and well, be it quite far away still, but there are a few
> > comments in the article I don't understand. Is there someone that can
> > shed some light?
> >
> > Quote:
> > ***
> > On the other hand, Haansoft frames a plan to establish a substantial
> > standard of documentation that is able to express 100% of contents used
> > in Korea and Asian countries, definitely different from documentations
> > written in English speaking countries. This plan is based on a
> > conclusion that the ODF standard of ISO is not enough to express
> > diagram-based documents which are frequently used in enterprises and
> > government.
> > ***
> >
> > What do they mean with diagram-based documents? What should be added to
> > ODF to support that? Is someone working on that?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
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