- XML for our native file format
- CSS-like properties for formatting characteristics
- PNG for our native raster graphics format, and
- (eventually) SVG for our native vector graphics format.
Thus, every once in a while, it's a good idea for AbiWord developers to stop
on by the W3C site and see whether there are any relevant specs we should be
taking advantage of:
http://www.w3.org/Style/css/current-work.html
Recent working drafts of interest here include:
- Multi-column layout in CSS
- International layout
- Paged media properties for CSS3
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Note that not all of the proposed mechanisms fit well with the way we do
things, but anyone adding features to the formatter should definitely keep
these designs in mind to avoid gratuitous differences.
Paul
PS: Elsewhere on the site, I also ran across the following:
Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages
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http://www.w3.org/TR/unicode-xml/
It's pretty incomplete, but so far it looks like we're doing just fine. :-)