-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/07 11:02, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:50:32AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 09/24/07 02:13, Osamu Aoki wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:29:46PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> [snip] >>>> The problem being that you won't get proper >>>> diffs between versions where you've only changes a few words. I don't >>>> really know the inner workings of the various VCS, but have a couple >>>> suggestions. >>> In theory, OO documents are zipped archive of XML and graphics files. >>> You can make diff between XML but I do not think you can use diff >>> efficiently. If you have graphic files etc, diff on them may not be >>> much useful. >> It's too bad that OOo doesn't let you specify "uncompressed" as a >> document attribute. Or even have a "directory-as-document" mode. > > Ron, why you are so negative on OOo?
Negative? Hardly. I'm just wishing for new features, that's all. > Why we need "uncompressed" when we can make it "uncompressed"? > > Here is what I meant by "diff between XML": Not automated. The svn plugin mentioned by Steve Lamb seems darned useful, though. > * I made 2 revisions of ODT doc w/o picture. > * Used fastjar -x and extracted its XML files. > * Took wdiff -l of 2 version of content.xml > > Yes, it tells me what has been changed. > > But it is long 1 line XML file w/o line break. It is hard to see. (It > is useful though if you are desperate.) Thus, I said "not much useful". Ah, I see that. :( Yet another OOo wishlist item. > I know MS word file can be compared with some special tool (I have seen > it mostly used by lawyer. It is basically nice color diff.) I just do > not know similar tool for ODT. (Anyone know tool for this??) > > But if someone just want to exchange doc with others for proofreading, > ODT history will do it just the same way as MS Word. > > (Anytime you need so much detailed REV control, you use hand written XML > or LaTeX, I think.) > > So SVN or CVS will do good job for the purpose the original poster said. > > After all it is one man backup solution issue. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG9/DYS9HxQb37XmcRAmRLAKCV419wLLknL31KRKfyxkVnWzmaAgCgrO8/ ZHwxMLfjzK0EEjx9qKsL0nA= =Ab47 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
