On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:03:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > - From the original post, 08/22/07 15:26 UTC: > > o handle non-text data as well as some textual data. The main > > file that is going to change most often is an OOo document (odt). Here we have the source of some of the confusion. He's already specfied odt _and_ some non-textual data. This implies something other than simply some italics.
Since we don't know what type of non-text data, we don't know if it needs versioning too or how to do it. We've already determined that we don't know how to version odt. So: if versioning isn't required, then what is the point of this thread? If versioning is required, then odt isn't a possibility and people have recommended LaTex as a suitable alternative that can incorporate "non-text data" if that means graphics or e.g. formulae. The only other solution to the versioning of something that you can't diff would be a full-fledged database with full logging. Check out the most recent version, edit it, then post it back as a new record. Since these are files, they'd be 'huge' items in the database. I don't know. I've never used Word or OO. Prior to LaTex it was lout; both text markup. Prior to that it was WordPerfect on OS/2 that did its own versioning, including graphics (since they were vector graphics, the vertices were what was stored). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
