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Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)



Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:03:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>  
>> - From the original post, 08/22/07 15:26 UTC:
>>   > o handle non-text data as well as some textual data. The main
>>   > file that is going to change most often is an OOo document (odt).
>  
> Here we have the source of some of the confusion.  He's already specfied
> odt _and_ some non-textual data.  This implies something other than
> simply some italics.  

> Since we don't know what type of non-text data, we don't know if it
> needs versioning too or how to do it.  We've already determined that we
> don't know how to version odt.

    You snipped the relevant portion of that requirement.  Freemind (stated
mistakenly as Mindmap) and Storylines files were the examples I gave for
non-textual.  I started out the thread thinking that OOo could be versioned
since I knew it was nothing more than an XML document.  I did not know at the
time it was compressed which would render it non-text to a versioning software.

    I was quickly disabused of that misconception and was perfectly fine to
not have versioning via normal textual means.  In fact I then switched my
thinking to how to get OOo to save uncompressed or have the versioning
software to handle OOo documents.  But if I can't get it versioned that's no
big deal.

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