Re: Tool for document management
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On 09/24/07 11:02, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:50:32AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 09/24/07 02:13, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:29:46PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>> The problem being that you won't get proper
>>>> diffs between versions where you've only changes a few words. I don't
>>>> really know the inner workings of the various VCS, but have a couple
>>>> suggestions.
>>> In theory, OO documents are zipped archive of XML and graphics files.
>>> You can make diff between XML but I do not think you can use diff
>>> efficiently. If you have graphic files etc, diff on them may not be
>>> much useful.
>> It's too bad that OOo doesn't let you specify "uncompressed" as a
>> document attribute. Or even have a "directory-as-document" mode.
>
> Ron, why you are so negative on OOo?
Negative? Hardly. I'm just wishing for new features, that's all.
> Why we need "uncompressed" when we can make it "uncompressed"?
>
> Here is what I meant by "diff between XML":
Not automated. The svn plugin mentioned by Steve Lamb seems darned
useful, though.
> * I made 2 revisions of ODT doc w/o picture.
> * Used fastjar -x and extracted its XML files.
> * Took wdiff -l of 2 version of content.xml
>
> Yes, it tells me what has been changed.
>
> But it is long 1 line XML file w/o line break. It is hard to see. (It
> is useful though if you are desperate.) Thus, I said "not much useful".
Ah, I see that. :(
Yet another OOo wishlist item.
> I know MS word file can be compared with some special tool (I have seen
> it mostly used by lawyer. It is basically nice color diff.) I just do
> not know similar tool for ODT. (Anyone know tool for this??)
>
> But if someone just want to exchange doc with others for proofreading,
> ODT history will do it just the same way as MS Word.
>
> (Anytime you need so much detailed REV control, you use hand written XML
> or LaTeX, I think.)
>
> So SVN or CVS will do good job for the purpose the original poster said.
>
> After all it is one man backup solution issue.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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