Re: Using LibreOffice for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 03 September 2015 17:40:16 Mike Evans wrote: > A new but related thread then. > > It seems many documenters are not prepared to accept anything but a > WYSIWIG solution, even though I feel then learning the arcanery of > LibreOffice is harder than learning Asciidoc. Oh well. > I

Re: Using LibreOffice for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread Mike Evans
On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:48:16 +0200 Geert Janssens wrote: > I never new something as a master document existed in libreoffice. I'm > learning a lot from this > thread :) > > Other than the concerns Tommy Trussell already mentioned I worry about > merging. > > Can

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-04 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 01 September 2015 15:13:48 John Ralls wrote: > > Geert, > > > > Thanks for testing. I agree that the check_foo() semantics are > > clumsy. I did it that way to avoid negating the return value in the > > if conditional, but in retrospect that would be clearer, so I’ll > > flip it. > >

Re: Using LibreOffice for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread Jeff Warnica
Git can automatically unpack the zips and do the needful on this raw XML. Apparently. https://tante.cc/2010/06/23/managing-zip-based-file-formats-in-git/ On Sep 4, 2015 8:26 AM, "Mike Evans" wrote: > On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:48:16 +0200 > Geert Janssens

Re: Using LibreOffice for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 4, 2015, at 6:48 AM, Jeff Warnica > wrote: > > Git can automatically unpack the zips and do the needful on this raw XML. > Apparently. > > https://tante.cc/2010/06/23/managing-zip-based-file-formats-in-git/ > On Sep 4, 2015 8:26 AM, "Mike Evans"

Re: Using LibreOffice for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 4, 2015, at 4:01 AM, Mike Evans wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:48:16 +0200 > Geert Janssens wrote: > >> I never new something as a master document existed in libreoffice. I'm >> learning a lot from this >> thread :) >> >> Other

Re: Using AsciiDoc for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 4, 2015, at 4:25 AM, Mike Evans wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:29:15 +0200 > Geert Janssens wrote: > >> On Thursday 03 September 2015 01:28:59 Buddha Buck wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:20 AM Geert Janssens >>>

Re: Managing prices in stock transactions.

2015-09-04 Thread David Carlson
I will start over and use different language, but I still have issues to express. I was exploring ways to transform a copy of an existing stock purchase or sale of some number of shares of stock FOO into a similar purchase or sale of stock BAR on a different date and in a different brokerage

Re: Using LaTex for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, I'd recommend Pandoc as a universal converter: http://pandoc.org/ It's open source. I'd assumed someone would have mentioned it by now, but no one did, so here we are :-) Best, Yawar On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Tuesday 01

Re: Using LaTex for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Whoops, never mind, I see now I hit send too fast. Pandoc is mentioned in another related thread. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Yawar Amin wrote: > Hi Geert, I'd recommend Pandoc as a universal converter: > http://pandoc.org/ > > It's open source. I'd assumed someone