Hacking OpenOffice

Submitted by cel4145 on July 15, 2005 - 09:12.

Here's an interesting piece over at XML.com by Peter Sefton describing how to hack the XML and XLST files in OpenOffice writer. Also talks about how to add custom style sheet menus. One day, I think it would be great to see EMMA capabilities applied to OO using some of these techniques.

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Submitted by Bob on July 25, 2005 - 14:51.

Wow. I've been asleep at the switch! It took me how many days to see this emma reference?

This has been an interesting issue for us. The analogy we've always followed in the emma project is that we're interested in building the essay processor in a world dominated by the word processor. XML and Open Office make those two worlds overlap even more.

When students and instructors talk about their resistance to tagging, I often think that if they only knew that their word processor were tagging for them, they wouldn't see tagging for emma as a cognitive leap. All I can say at this point is that I'm happy Open Office is this open. It's only a matter of time before we have word processors "branded" for different communities and audiences with their own TEI tag sets built right in to the word processor. Maybe emma will help fill that role. . .

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have you considered Amaya

Submitted by cel4145 on July 25, 2005 - 15:31.

I've been playing with Amaya recently. If you could incorporate your XML stylesheets into it, it might work well since it can display the XML structure or source code underneath the wysiwyg display in a split view. So tagging could be visible in two differen, meaningful ways while allowing WYSIWYG style editing of the .html file.

Regardless, you'd have fun playing with Amaya :)