RE: Documents in CVS

Abiword is open-source, word-compatible, stores the files in an xml format
and has Windows and Linux versions, hope it helps.

Carlos K.


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> De: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]En nombre de Price, Chris
> Enviado el: lunes, 27 de octubre de 2003 9:35
> Para: 'java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Asunto: Documents in CVS
>
>
> All,
>
> Apologies if this is slightly off-topic, but some of you must
> have come
> across this before:
>
> We are using a CVS repository (on linux) to store all our
> java source (and
> using the excellent TortoiseCVS client to access it from Windows).
>
> Currently all our technical documentation is written using MS
> Word. We would
> like to store the documentation in CVS as well, and ideally
> be able to track
> the changes in that documentation using CVS. This is not
> possible using Word
> .doc files, which needs to be treated as binary files in CVS.
>
> So the question is what editors do people suggest that
> produces documents of
> a similar quality to Word, but that saves the information in
> a text-based
> format CVS could handle?
>
> I've looked at Open Office, as I heard that it uses XML as
> it's file format.
> Unfortunately the files are stored Zipped, so that doesn't
> help. (Although
> using OpenOffice as a HTML editor might be a goer, as it does
> a much better
> job than Word at that.)
>
> Oh, and the budget is $0 as you might expect.....
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
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