Re: Tools

Jonathon Blake wrote:

> Barry wrote:
>
> > Maybe but I think what happens after the manuscript is submitted
> varies widely.
>
> Definitely.
>
> > So I would rate them roughly comparable for my purposes.
>
> You and _maybe_ the OOo Java developer.[A number of experienced VBA
> programmers have seen it as a very steep learning curve. One
> organization ditched OOo because that learning curve was too steep for
> their programmers.]
>
> Having to do Java API calls is a learning curve.

Sure, of course it is. But so is learning any high level language, and
doing it well. From my point of view, I can hire good programmers to do
either with very little trouble. So can anyone else, so I don't really
want to get into a religious war here about it.

>
> > Are they documented anywhere?
>
> AFAIK, no specific details have been published. The general

Hmm, now you are infected with the "cut off my sentence" bug :)

>
> >do they cause any issues on Linux on a file otherwise identically
> constructed, or is it strictly a Windows problem?
>
> It doesn't matter what platform is running OOo. FreeBSD, Mac OS X,
> Linux. Create a document with the required format, save it as Word,
> and give the result to somebody who uses Windows. Their system will
> suffer The Blue Screen of Death.
>
> Note: Opening the document with MSOffice, on a Linux platform will not
> cause the equivalent of The Blue Screen of Death.

OK maybe my question wasn't clear then - this is only a partial answer.
I meant, if you have a bad document, and it crashes Windows, then, if
the bug is in a piece of code shared across platforms (such as a buffer
overflow or whatever) then it might or might not exhibit bad behavior on
multiple platforms. Or it could be pointing up a bug in the Windows API.

>
> > talking about the beta version, the current stable version, or both?
>
> It can be done on any versions of OOo that has CJK and Complex Text
> Language support.

So then has this been submitted as a bug yet? What sort of formatting or
characters or both does there need to be to make this happen?

Best,

Barry