I must say I agree with Dale, here we still use mainly MSWord for nearly all
documentation writing, and PDF exports. XOffice was feeling the gap, and
allowing us to introduce XWiki in the existing process.
Also, as a wiki (even xwiki) is not really bringing killer-features for the
enterprise produc
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:46:03PM +0400, Haru Mamburu wrote:
> Hi, Paul,
>
> IMHO, from one side Xoffice - great tool, from other - it's almost useless:
> - MS Word is not the only editor in the PC world
> - MS Word is relatively "heavy" application.
> - Installation process is far from seamless
Hi, Paul,
IMHO, from one side Xoffice - great tool, from other - it's almost useless:
- MS Word is not the only editor in the PC world
- MS Word is relatively "heavy" application.
- Installation process is far from seamless - huge headache for people "who
have almost no free time and are not in
The killer feature is that normal users can create a document and copy-paste
screenshots into a wiki document.
That cannot be done with (almost) any web wiki editor I can find at present.
Every person we showed it to loved it, and was willing to try editing a
document on the wiki.
Everyone we talk
Hi,
If you didn't start your documentation yet and you don't have any legacy
documents, I'd recommend using a pure web solution like XWiki. If you use MS
Office for advanced content, you will have issues pushing that content to
the wiki anyway.
I created XOffice a few years ago, when MS Office was
Hi Paul,
Indeed nobody is actively working on it at the moment and I was about to send a
mail this week to propose to retire it and move it to the contrib repository
since nobody in the xwiki committers are active on it and we want to keep a
good quality on the software that we make available.
Hi all,
I personally fixed a few bugs in xoffice at the start of the year, which was
released in XOffice 1.1. That was a long time ago, and we have not been
using xoffice in the meantime (not building documentation yet). Now it is
time to use it, and I'm having a lot of trouble.
I would post a