FWIW, I'd prefer to use an editor over XML any day. But that's just me - from an author point of view. Of course, I also enjoy using JSPWiki for documentation. ;-)
Matt On 1/24/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > > Yes, getting non-technical people to collaborate is good. I am simply > pointing out that there would also be somewhat inevitable claims that we are > promoting the use of Open Office, and its formats, by forcing anyone wanting > to collaborate to acquire that product, rather than be able to use the > editor of their choice. Whether or not that is considered important is > another matter. But you might want to have answered lined up. > > There is a certain ironic chicken and egg issue. If there were plenty of > free tools and lots of traction for ODF, perhaps there would be less > complaint. Are you aware of any tools, particularly lightweight Java-based > editors, other than Open Office? > > I believe that Ted's already noted that we wouldn't be able to track the > actual content changes in source control. Instead, we would have binary > files being totally replaced, since SVN wouldn't see the content inside the > ZIP file. > > --- Noel > >
