On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
I do outreach projects, where I need to print things on paper, and they need to look (somewhat) pretty. I'm not in the business of developing entirely new wordprocessing or typesetting software.
Who suggested you do so?
I was asking you to express your needs in a clear and actionable manner so that *someone* might address them. I looked at the document you provided and with the exception of pagination control I didn't see any obvious layout elements that Wikitext does not provide. I have no doubt that they exist, but I'm missing them. Improvements to Wikitext would be beneficial to many people.
When I take photos, I use a commercially available camera. It's not realistic for me to take five years off to develop my own camera. Both tools, OpenOffice and my Canon camera, deliver editable source files in open formats. Wikimedia Commons accepts the JPEG photos, but not the Open Document files. I'm continuing my work, and I will upload PDF files to Wikimedia Commons, but I will keep the editable source files (ODT) offline.
The current reasons for not allowing these formats has already been explained by multiple people, they have nothing to do with demanding you to make your own camera.
Wikimedia Commons is already full of posters and brochures in PDF, where the editable source files are unavailable. That is sad.
It's mostly not supposed to be, except for some forms of source material. Full of is relative: Out of 3.5 million files ones in that class are fairly infrequent... and posters are not equivalent to text documents. Commons does not generally permit uploads of original texts which could otherwise be wiki-text, though this is not why ODT is not currently allowed. (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Scope#Allowable_reasons_for_PDF_an...)