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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:24:21 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] [DISCUSSION] Corinthia Abstract
From: Ian C <ian@amham.net>
To: general@incubator.apache.org, dennis.hamilton@acm.org
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Hi All,

I am intrigued by this project. And will sign up once it becomes available
a real Apache project.

Same as for everyone, making time is the killer...

As something of an amusing sideline I created a document in Google Drive
and downloaded it as an odt. Looking inside, eeks, each word is in its own
span?
Opening and saving in OpenOffice seems to restore some sanity. I did the
same in docx ... This project will have its work cut out...

Even more interested now...

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org
> wrote:

> I put together an abstract in the Corinthia Podling Proposal.  It is a bit
> lengthy and requires review that it captures the essence of what Corinthia
> is for without over/under-stepping.
>
> Here is the text also added to <
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/CorinthiaProposal>,
>
> """
> Corinthia converts among document file formats via transformation through
> an HTML-grounded intermediary.  The selection of document file formats is
> expandable by addition of import and export plugins.
>
> Editing in Corinthia is via a responsive editor, implemented in JavaScript
> and HTML (CSS), that works on the web, in the cloud, and also adapts across
> device form factors for practical use on mobile devices, tablets, and
> touch-enabled as well as keyboard-oriented interfaces.  Corinthia document
> viewing and editing is on the intermediate form, limited to common,
> widely-supported features. Corinthia is not a comprehensive substitute for
> format-specific authoring, editing, and final-form printing/production
> software.
>
> To avoid irreversible loss of features from imported documents, Corinthia
> encapsulates unsupported feature occurrences in a form that can be
> recovered from the intermediate as part of subsequent export to the same or
> different format.
>
> Identification and confirmation of inter-convertible features of different
> formats for dependable import and export involves development of extensive
> test documents in the different formats.  There is profiling of the extent
> to which standardized formats are supported in practice, with
> identification of deviations and implementation-dependent choices that
> impact convertibility.
>
> All of the Corinthia test cases, profiling, plugin development, libraries,
> and utilities are reusable resources to other projects.  All development of
> source-code for binaries is in portable C Language for multi-platform
> compilation as well as API "wrapping" for delivery to other programming
> models, such as for Python, .NET, Java, and Node.js.  Document format file
> import and export plugins may be adaptable as import-export extensions used
> with other document-processing software.
> """
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jan i [mailto:jani@apache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 03:13
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] [DISCUSSION] Corinthia for Incubation.
>
> Hi all.
>
> We, at the project, hope that the lack of discussion is not a negative sign
> !
>
> In the meantime, we have been working behind the scenes, and a couple of
> things have happened:
>
> - The proposal is now on the incubator wiki / corinthiaProposal
> <https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/CorinthiaProposal>
>
> - Dennis Hamilton (incubator, aoo committer) joined the initial committer
> list. His expertise in especially document formats will be of great value
> to the project, Dennis is also providing a lot of good feedback on our open
> issues.
>
> - Daniel Gruno (Humbedooh) has volunteered to be mentor for the project. We
> look forward to guidance in all the tricky "paper work".
>
> - Talks are being prepared for ACNA.
>
>
> We are more than happy to answer any questions and make requested changes.
>
> on behalf of the project
> jan i
>
>
> On 24 November 2014 at 22:14, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) <
> Ross.Gardler@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > There are some passing similarities with Forrest here. I'm not suggesting
> > any changes to the proposal, just flagging that the intermediate format
> > approach described here is the approach Forrest takes. The focus for
> > Forrest was not on document format conversion but there is a lot of
> > experience there in using intermediate formats.
> >
> > Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
> > A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jan i [mailto:jani@apache.org]
> > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 12:37 PM
> > To: jan i
> > Cc: general@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] [DISCUSSION] Corinthia for Incubation.
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > Sorry, somebody hit me with the big GIT hammer !! I did something with
> git
> > that should not be done.
> >
> > The correct text is:
> [ ... ]
>
>
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Cheers,

Ian C

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