Re: [Fwd: Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)]
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On 02/11/07 20:08, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 19:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> On 02/11/07 18:41, Greg Folkert wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 15:39 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>>>> 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
A wiki for long, complex and/or important documents? That's crazy.
> 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.
I didn't know Exchange could do that.
>> 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.
>
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