C. Thomas Stover wrote:
> On the other hand, if you are trying to do actual collaborative work on
> documents, then it is absolutely critical that in addition to a SCM
> system (fossil would be great), that you move to a text/source based
> document generation technology. 

The real problem is a lack of diff & merge tools for the particular
document format. Given those, any file format can be used well in
a SCM. [The lack of such tools for formats such as MS Word and PDF
simply boggles the mind. You would think that such formats were never
used for serious documentation...]

Graeme Gill.

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