[freeroleplay] Re: Towards a better Document/Content MS
- From: Samuel Penn <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:51:53 +0100
On Thursday 27 May 2004 05:20, Jerry Stratton wrote:
> At 1:29 PM +0100 on 5/26/04, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
> >Good question. The only reason I suggest OO is that it seems to do a lot
> > of what we want to do: export to a wide range of formats, including PDF,
> > XML-based content syntax, seperation of content, layout and style. It has
> > a plugin facility, it uses Java bindings. I'd be interested to know how
> > we could insert yags tags into a document and process and display them
> > all within OO.org. What do we need Jexus for?!?
>
> I don't know what can do this, but what I'd really like to see in a "word
> processor" for open source documents is the ability to maintain connections
> across versions in a manner that assists downstream users in merging
> previously-made changes to new versions of the original.
This is easy if you stick to XML. Storing the documents in CVS means I
can use standard tools for merging differences between versions of
documents, since the documents are just plain text.
Doing this transparently in a "word processor" rather than in a text
editor might be somewhat harder - though shouldn't be impossible.
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