OTM: Master Document Templates

The earliest  mention of OTM as an OASIS file specification that I could find, is from a discussion list in May of 2005, specifically, https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200505/msg00006.html

The only announcement of inclusion of OTM in LibreOffice that I could find, was a blog post by Caolán McNamara in September of 2014, stating that it was new for LibreOffice 4.4 --- https://caolanm.blogspot.com/2014/09/.

A message in 2015 briefly describes the background of why the OTM document file format exists. https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/201502/msg00022.html.

In the help files of LibreOffice 6.3, there is a mention of it, as filter. CF https://help.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/shared/guide/convertfilters.html?DbPAR=SHARED

In theory, this file format will enable one to create sets of documents that share the same data, without having to go through the hassle of creating a new master document for each specific scenario, and hoping that one remembers where all of the shared documents, images, and the like reside.

In practice, I don't know.  I've been struggling to create my first OTM document, with very little to show for it.

MLE: Proposed Topics

 

Included are:

• B2T V L2R: Writing Direction;

• B2T V R2L: Writing Direction;

• Boustrophedon: Writing Direction;

• L2R 45 downslant: Writing Direction;

• L2R 45 upslant: Writing Direction;

• L2R H T2B: Writing Direction;

• L2R V B2T: Writing Direction;

• R2L 45 downslant: Writing Direction;

• R2L 45 upslant: Writing Direction;

• R2L H T2B: Writing Direction;

• R2L V B2T: Writing Direction;

• Reverse Boustrophedon: Writing Direction;

• T2B V L2R: Writing Direction;

• T2B V R2L: Writing Direction;

• Akkasian;

• Alibata;

• Aramaic;

• Coastal Salish;

• Coptic;

• Devangari;

• Greek;

• Hangul;

• Hebrew;

• Hittite;

• Huna;

• Lepcha;

• Manchu;

• Meriotic;

• Mongolian;

• Nashu;

• Naxi;

• Ogham;

• Orkhon;

• Pahawh Hmong;

• Pegong

• Rongo-Rongo;

• Sanskrit;

• Tengwar;

• Thai;

• Tsalgi;

• Vai;

• Xhosa;

• Zuni;

• Chinese (Language) (Traditional);

• Spanish (Language);

• English (Language);

• Hindi (Language);

• Arabic (Language);

• Portuguese (Language);

• Bengali (Language);

• Russian (Language);

• Japanese (Language);

• Lahinda (Language);

• Javanese (Language);

• German (Language);

• Enochian (Conlang);

• Solresol (Conlang);

• Mondoshowan (Conlang);

• Klingon (Conlang);

• Tengwar (Conlang);

• toki pona (Conlang);

• Esperanto (Conlang);

Template: Music Paper

Music Paper

• Template URL: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/template/music-paper
• Rating on Apache OpenOffice Website: 3.9 (48 votes);
• License: BSD
• License URL: http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/BSD.pdf
• Template attributed tor: Volker Ahrendt
• Template creator: Sun MicroSystems
• Component: Write
• Page size: US Letter
• Font: Liberation Sans

Function

This template is for printing music paper.

There are nine staves on the page. For transcribing music, one will probably want to create a second sheet, that consists exclusively of staves.

Each stave is constructed as a table. As such, it is not usable for those who use the LOSA set of extensions, to create sheet music from within LibreOffice. For those who write music by hand, printing the sheets out.

Template: 1/10 ¨ Cartesian Graph Paper

1/10 ¨ Cartesian Graph Paper

• Template URL: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/template/110-cartesian-graph-paper
• Rating on Apache OpenOffice Website: 3.9 (31 votes);
• License: BSD
• License URL: http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/BSD.pdf
• Template attributed tor: Volker Ahrendt
• Template creator: Sun MicroSystems
• Component: Write
• Page size: US Letter
• Font: Albany

Function

This template is for printing graph paper. It is not a full page. By playing with page styles, the table can be expanded by adding additional rows and columns, so that it is a full page.

I don’t have a printer, so I can’t print this out, to verify that the squares are one tenth of an inch in size. Furthermore, the only ruler I have, uses the metric system.

Template: 1/4 ¨ Cartesian Graph Paper

1/4 ¨ Cartesian Graph Paper

• Template URL: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/template/14-cartesian-graph-paper
• Rating on Apache OpenOffice Website: 3.9 (31 votes);
• License: BSD
• License URL: http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/BSD.pdf
• Template attributed tor: Volker Ahrendt
• Template Creator: Sun MicroSystems
• Component: Write
• Page size: US Letter
• Font: Albany

Function

This template is for printing graph paper. It is not a full page. By playing with page styles, the table can be expanded by adding additional rows and columns, so that it is a full page.

Scenario Template

• Template URL: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/template/scenario-template
• Rating on Apache OpenOffice Website: 4 (2 votes);

This template was not available for downloading. Consequently, it was neither tested, nor rated.

Extensions for NeoOffice, Libreoffice, EuroOffice, Apache OpenOffice, and AndrOffice.

AndrOffice offers 3 extensions.

 
Apache Open Office claims the following number of extensions:

By operating system:

• 752 extensions for Windows;
• 684 extensions for Mac OS X;
• 704 extensions for Linux;
• 668 extensions  for Linux x86_64;
• 657 extensions for Solaris x86;
• 655 extensions for SolarisSparc;

By component:

• 391 extensions for the program as a whole;
• 284 extensions for Writer; 
• 195 extensions for Calc;
• 100 extensions for Draw;
• 84 extensions for Draw;
• 29 extensions for Base;
• 13 extensions for Charts;
• 10 extensions for Math;

Doing a keyword search, there are:

• 159 extensions which are dictionaries;
• 51 extensions which are templates;
• 34 extensions which consist of clipart;

EuroOffice offers 17 extensions.

LibreOffice claims:

• 304 projects with 680 available releases.

NeoOffice does not appear to offer any extensions.

These numbers were initially compiled on 21 December 2016. 
The most recent  update was on 30 December 2016.
Not all figures were verified when the most recent update was done.