On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:48:40 -0500 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:16 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 > > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office > > >> fans. > > >> > > > > > > lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class to use. > > > If you are doing something small (one or two pages) and atypical it > > > might be faster to just use abiword. > > > > > I've never heard of lyx. Have to check it out. Would you consider a > > 450 page book a big project? > > It would be with Microsoft Word using Change Tracking. Infact I ahve > seen a 100 page document being 2 years old with 1-2 changes a day being > done to it... literally require a machine with the fastest processors > and 4GB of memory (using WindowsXP) just to open it in under 10 minutes. > > The document was the "production" scheduling system... and they wanted > to keep track of what happened, without making it any different. So a > genius MCP suggested Change-tracking. > > One day it failed to open at all Word just crapped out on it. And Guess > what, there were no backups as "long ago" it was too slow if opened from > the S: network drive and was decided to put it on the C: network drive > as everything was being backed-up on the network. Huh, C:\scheduling.doc > wasn't on the backups. Typical for windows (backing up/keeping track of changes/synchronizing is a pain with windows) it does sound like the job much better handled by a text document along with cvs/svn. BTW, lyx has change tracking in the 1.4 version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
