On 1/15/2021 1:01 AM, F Campos Costero wrote: > Keith - Have you looked into using Git with the odt file format. I did a > quick search and it seems that Git can only handle a plain text version of > the document if you want to see a Diff between two versions. So you could > see which words had changed and differences in the grouping of text in > paragraphs but things like the formatting of text or arrangement of images > with respect to the text could not be tracked through git diff. Of course, > changes could be tracked within the odt file, though even that is not > comprehensive. For example, changing a paragraph's style does not seem to > be captured. Dennis's point about how edits will be coordinated and > versions controlled is very important.. I have no experience with technical > writing beyond writing drafts and handing them to "the documentation > people" to do their magic, so I can't give any really informed advice. The > matter does bear some very careful thinking and discussion. Luckily, we > will not have to deal with a huge team right away. > > regards, > Francis >
Yes I did. In fact all the revisions of the proposal were done using my GitHub account and it worked quite well. It will offer to open the binary file in the external application. You are correct that it does not handle a diff, but that is not why I was suggesting using it. It was simply as this is the version control system that the project has chosen to use and trying to implement anything different would require yet another VM for the project and the incumbent overhead of finding volunteers with the necessary skills to maintain it. As I am seeing no other comments from the documentation team I am planning on writing this attempt off as one more failure on my part. I will continue on my own to attempt to get a usable 4.1.x and 4.2.x Getting Started guide completed. Any help in getting these done will be greatly appreciated. Regards Keith > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:26 AM Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> > wrote: > >> On 1/13/2021 6:17 PM, Dennis Hamilton wrote:
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