Re: future gnoffice reference (mswordview 0.4.0 released)

[Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis mindspring net>]

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:

> > Someone might want to file this away for when we want to import word
> > docs into gnoffice.  Making it a baboon-accessible service would be nifty.
> 
> "baboon-accessible" :)  Gnome is sounding like a zoo. :-) 

Mommy, mommy, I want to see the gnorbas!

> Word accessibility would be a big boon when it comes to goffice.  I'd
> really like to see this.  Would we be coming up with our own format or do
> you think we could just read/write Word files since it's the standard
> these days.  What about Wordperfect files?

Take a look at gnumeric and its resulting file format for how XML will
be used for this purpose.

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