On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 19:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/11/07 18:41, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 15:39 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >>> What do you need in a WP? Academic features (formal citations, > >>> embedded graphics, TOC, index, etc), movie/theater formating, > >>> something I haven't thought of? > >>> > >>> > >> Just to add another voice. Some of us have to exchange documents with > >> people who use Word - particularly in work settings, and features like > >> change tracking, > > > > Change tracking in word is a horrible feature. It makes the documents > > about 170% larger after each set of changes. You ever seen a 3 page > > specification document 90MB+ in size? I have. It was horrible. Someone > > could easily turn off revision control and you would lose eveyrthing > > except the current revision when saved. > > Needing to run a cvs or svn server to access documents just won't > fly with 99.9% of the computing world. How about a simple wiki-type product. Change tracking and the whole sh-bang. It is the whole reason Wikis were created. If not a wiki, a proper document library with a document publishing system is easily had and setup. Saving into the library rather than a filesystem is all that is needed. Heck Exchange is good for SOMETHING, beside e-mail and scheduling you know. Lotus Notes does it too, as does Groupwise. > Besides, seeing people's versions and revisions all together on the > page is darned useful. Even if MS implemented it poorly. I didn't say it wasn't useful. I just said its implementation was horrific. I see you agree on that. -- greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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