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  1. Re:Kinda ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on South Africa Appeals ISO Decision On OOXML

    Still, this is about the third time I've asked: could someone PLEASE post a link to where those are fully fleshed out in documentation. I've had people tell me time and again that they are fully defined, but I would appreciate being able to see it and read it. Thank you in advance to anyone who does.
    Here's the proposed solution (click on the 'proposed disposition' tab) to autoSpaceLikeWord95.
  2. Re:Anyone else by Dahan · · Score: 0 · on Unix Group Takes UK Standards Body To Court Over OOXML

    Personally, I haven't heard about any comments being addressed in the MSOOXML spec. I know the issues from the BRM were flagged to be fixed, but when last I heard we were relying on Microsoft's willingness to do the right thing in order to get them fixed.

    While I haven't seen a copy of the final standard that got approved, since I'm sure it'll cost $$$$ like just about every other ISO standard, I have seen the corrections MS proposed in reply to the comments raised by the various national standard bodies. And I seriously doubt MS is going to spend the time to write up documentation for that stuff, then go, "Psyche! This isn't going to go into the standard after all!"

    The "Proposed Disposition" tab of this page has documentation on these formerly-undocumented/underdocumented elements: autoSpaceLikeWord95, footnoteLayoutLikeWW8, lineWrapLikeWord6, mwSmallCaps, shapeLayoutLikeWW8, suppressTopSpacingWP, truncateFontHeightsLikeWP6, uiCompat97To2003, useWord2002TableStyleRules, useWord97LineBreakRules, wpJustification, and wpSpaceWidth.

  3. Re:Horse running, cart rolling out of gate by joelstobart · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Standing Firm On OOXML ISO Vote
    basically Microsoft has suggested over 1000 corrections and modifications to the current specification via ECMA to the ISO. Therefore; the documents you save as .docx are about as ISO OOXML complaint as they are jam. These are just suggested modifications, and no-one really knows what the OOXML standard would look like. in the unlikely event that it managed to become an ISO standard we may then see a copy of the standard many months later.

    If your feeling bored you can read the comments, and the comments about the comments, and the comments about the comments about the comments; here

  4. No credit for me please by dominux · · Score: 2, Informative · on Promise of OOXML Oversight By ISO Falls Through

    I am Alan Bell, (the secret is out) and I put together dis29500.org (with the help of The Open Sourcerer) but the content and suggestions were not written by us, although we do agree with many of them. The comments were written by the National Bodies. I believe the US gets credit for this one http://dis29500.org/us-0270

  5. Word95 by UdoKeir · · Score: 1 · on OOXML's 662 Resolutions

    Here are the responses to that oft-reported Word95 kludge: http://www.dis29500.org/?s=word95

    Interesting that the responses look like they were written by different people.

  6. Bribery? by floki · · Score: 1 · on France Leading Charge Against OOXML

    At least some admit that they have been bribed :-) See China's sole comment (http://www.dis29500.org/category/countries/china/):

    China National Body have been paid special attention to the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 ballot. Great work have been done and during the process we found it is a very complex technology which needs further more time to establish testing environment for thoroughly and deeply evaluation. We think the fast-track procedure is not suitable for this DIS. ...
  7. France submitted 591 comments on the OOXML spec by dominux · · Score: 4, Informative · on France Leading Charge Against OOXML

    here they are: http://www.dis29500.org/category/countries/france/ nearly as much as the UK and more than twice the USA total. Raw totals of comments can be a bit missleading, but the UK, France and the USA were the top three in terms of numbers of comments. That kind of indicates the level of detail with which they looked at the standard, not the depth of feeling they have about it and how resistant they will be to MS lobbying during March (they have 30 days after the BRM to change their votes - it will be a crazy amount of lobbying and no doubt there will be more corruption/allegations of corruption)

  8. Re:Comments published as .doc? by dominux · · Score: 1 · on Ecma Receives 3,522 Comments on Open XML Standards

    check out http://dis29500.org/ I make the count 3489.

  9. wanna see them all? by dominux · · Score: 1 · on Ecma Receives 3,522 Comments on Open XML Standards

    I imported all the comments from all the word documents in the big zip file and put them into a wordpress blog template at http://dis29500.org/ By my count there are 3489, I guess there could be some late comments I didn't see or perhaps ECMA split some of the narative comments into their individual comments. Either way it is a lot of comments. I am trying to tag and sort them into categories, I need some help. Can anyone reading slashdot spot dupes? :-)