Re: Documents in CVS

["Franco Biaggi" <fbiaggi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
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Ciao.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:35:22 -0000, Price, Chris wrote:

>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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