RE: Documents in CVS

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

Mark,

I am aware of Words compare facility, and I agree it is great. That it what
we have been using in the past. 

Unfortunately it is somewhat reliant on manual processes - from remembering
to turn on versioning, or keeping backups of the documents, to doing the
actual compare and merge. I'd like to be able to semi-automate this, by
getting CVS to do the hard work.

Oh and when you have a budget of $0 and 30+ desktops, $500 a seat is
expensive!

Thanks,
Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Phippard [mailto:MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 October 2003 17:02
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: Documents in CVS



Chris,

Are you aware that Word has a built-in compare facility to compare two
documents?  It works pretty well.  If you agree, you could just store the
Docs as binary in CVS and pull out the revisions you want to compare and
use Word's compare option.

Merant's Version Manager has some built in support for adding version
control within Office, in addition to everything else.  It is not too
expensive, I think you can get it for around $500-600 per seat.

I have been pleasantly surprised with Word's compare option whenever I have
needed it.

Mark


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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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