RE: Emacs as word processor / Text Properties

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Drew Adams writes:

 > I don't see that #1 alone "is our target".  Just one opinion.

I don't either.  My point is simply that *if* sharing files (your #1)
is *a* goal, the target formats are *Office formats (.doc, OOXML, ODF
basically, and maybe we can ignore .doc in the near future).

 > I might even suggest not worrying about #1 on its own.  Get #2 right
 > and import/export will follow, to a large degree.

Export, already demonstrated in practice.  Import, I'll bet you my
dollars against your yen (up to a reasonable number like "20") that
getting separation of content from presentation (#2) right gets you
about 10% of the way to importing any of those formats reliably.

 > And to the degree that *Office documents are incompatible with
 > clean XML/XHTML/whatever, just say no: don't worry much about it.

That's cheating, of course. :-)  I don't have anything against that
strategy, personally (it's the one I advocate, after all).  But there
are people who think that file sharing with non-Emacs users is a goal.