Re: [libreoffice-users] status of "macro in ODF" interoperability?

On 07/25/2014 03:17 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 02:25:29 AM -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> > On 07/23/2014 11:40 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > that is supported (roughly speaking although not totally accurate). This
> > part of the language means things such as "how do I wrote a loop". Then you
> > have the part of "how do I control a specific word processor". The part that
> > you use to control the word processor is very specific to LO internals. The
> > language itself does not provide a means to manipulate what might be
> > contained in the document.
> Andrew,
>
> no offense meant, but at first sight this reply of yours sounded to me
> as just an expansion, much better worded of course, of what I myself
> wrote in that piece in 2005 I had linked to initially:
>
> http://archive09.linux.com/feature/47935
>
> then I thought: maybe you mean that the second category of macros I
> mention there (those for "one specific document") doesn't really
> exist, or cannot really exist?
>
>         Thanks,
>                 Marco

First, no offense taken; I am hard to offend, especially when you are 
polite :-)

You are certainly correct that I did restate some of what you said. In 
fact, you also said something in your article that I danced around, and, 
it is probably the most important point. And that is....

There is no macro language specification.

Even if there were a macro language specification, it still would not 
help unless that macro specification included not just the language 
semantics, but, also, commands used to manipulate the document and to 
interact with the program in general. When I hear "language 
specification", I never think about specific things to externally 
control a program. So, they would also need to specify an API usable to 
manipulate documents, switch between documents, etc.


--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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