On 03/19/2013 07:49 PM, Pierre DELAAGE wrote: > Hi Steve, > My own experience in my company is that OpenOffice is perfectly suited > for track changes in a collaborative env. > Ok, allright, it cannot offer a line by line diff as in cvs systems, and > return to specific version and so on, but the track changes can help. > > In my company, we were using latex...and track changes was in fact even > more complicated with it. > Not talking about "tables" and "graphics" that were painful. > OpenOffice gives the advantages of various worlds : wisywyg, open > format, quite robust for big doc compared to other similar products,.. > xml based...
Yes, I use Libreoffice heavily for legal documents as well the OpenSSL FIPS Module User guide. I haven't had access to Microsoft Office for years and am still able to exchange documents with our commercial clients, the "compare document" feature works well for that. OSF->Word->ODF conversions usually skew the format rendering enough to require merges from the modified Word document, but that can be done directly. But ODF is not well suited for an open source style collaboration. Several people can't easily modify the same document at the same time. By moving to git and docbook I'm hoping to more readily accommodate input from multiple collaborators. I used LaTex years ago, very powerful but way to fiddly for a relatively simple document like the FIPS User Guide. > Be careful before going away back to some raw xml format...even if it is > better than latex. Heh, well that's exactly what I'm doing now for better or worse. I'll have to make a "point of no return" decision soon as a first pass conversion to docbook is nearly done and I have new content changes that are needed. So it's an experiment that may not work out. > a question : Are you thinking to use "LyX" editor to produce Docbook ? I'm too new at docbook to know yet. I'll start with a regular text editor. -Steve M. -- Steve Marquess OpenSSL Software Foundation, Inc. 1829 Mount Ephraim Road Adamstown, MD 21710 USA +1 877 673 6775 s/b +1 301 874 2571 direct marqu...@opensslfoundation.com marqu...@openssl.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
