RE: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
>> From: news [mailto:news@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:59 PM
>> Subject: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version
> control
>>
>> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems
>> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades
> now
>> how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing
> as
>> well.
>>
> [smip]
>
> This probably isn't what you are wanting in whole, but it might be
> something to consider. I tried finding something very similar to what
> you were wanting for a friend who writes a lot. The best they had come
> up with was eclipse with a few document management plugins they found
> connected to a subversion server. I moved them to mediawiki as a test,
> and they really liked it. From all of the versioning, to the linking of
> documents, to the ability to outline and update the order of the outline
> with almost no work, they loved everything.
>
sorry to oppose but wiki is not really an alternative to LaTeX or any other
editor.
> The only two complaints they had was getting their work into a .doc or
> .pdf required cut and paste then verify the formatting. Then after they
> formatted it, they had to manually save the file back into mediawiki to
> keep the revision history.
Why no one mentioned HTML or alike You can write perfectly. Windows reads
it, OOO reads it Mozilla, IE and so on????
and it can be kept in rc
Believe me I write a lot. In fact try LyX ... it has wonderful
documentations. You need about a week or a month to know some useful tricks
but you won't regret
regards
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