Documents in CVS

["Price, Chris" <chris_price@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.