small update

[James Moore]

Alright, so far here are the export plugins people have requested

CSV
Nisus and Mellel via RTF
Shadowplan
Tinderbox
ConTEXt
Docbook
Wiki with support for numbered lists and tables
LaTeX with support numbered and un-numbered lists

Also some feel that Word import would be good to have as well.

As far as Word export goes our export is still going to be HTML based 
but all of the level hooks will be exported as well as the style 
information.

I suspect that once we release our plugin/applescript SDK (and probably 
sooner if you're willing to dig into the app bundle) some of you folks 
will step up to the plate and put some of these plugins together.

The main difficulty with building import plugins with our new system is 
that the input must be XML. So yes, we are embedding an XSL engine in 
Outliner 3, Xalan-c++ to be specific. Unless apps like Nisus and Mellel 
provide their documents in an XML format it won't be possible to import 
them unless one of our engineers spend the time to work on it.


-James

Technical Support Engineer
The Omni Group


On Sep 7, 2004, at 12:18 PM, James Moore wrote:

> Ok I'm going to wade through all of this email and I'll report back 
> some kind of summary.
>
> Unfortunately its really too late in the development cycle to add new 
> features to 3.0. Also, it's still a little too soon to discuss all of 
> the features of 3.0. We're getting there.....
>
> -James
>
> Technical Support Engineer
> The Omni Group
>
>
>
> On Sep 3, 2004, at 2:59 PM, James Moore wrote:
>
>> This list has seemed pretty dead lately so I thought I just poke it 
>> to make sure.
>>
>> We're hard at work on Outliner 3 still. Things are shaping up pretty 
>> nicely.
>>
>> One thing that I'm interested in finding out is what file formats are 
>> folks interested in exporting to?
>>
>> The reason I ask is that Outliner 3 is going to allow you to pretty 
>> easily create import and export plugins. I'd like to have a set of 
>> extra plugins available for download when we ship. I'm currently 
>> working on a new LaTeX export plugin. Some of the other formats we're 
>> working on are Excel (via HTML) and Apple Help. MS Word is going to 
>> be rolled in this time around.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -James
>>
>> Technical Support Engineer
>> The Omni Group
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