Re: [DISCUSS] Documentation

2016-11-14 Thread sebb
It's useful to be able to read commit diffs. AIUI OpenOffice docs are zipped so diffs aren't generated by SVN/Git etc. Also if the documentation source is all text-based then it's a lot easier to do searches and scripted edits (e.g. to fix common typos) On 14 November 2016 at 19:54, Manfred Mo

Re: [DISCUSS] Documentation

2016-11-14 Thread Manfred Moser
I have used all those as well and my preference still sits with asciidoc. Mostly because I have a larger choice of quality output. If I have the choice overall and write more complex stuff on my own I would probably go back to LaTeX ;-) manfred Martin Desruisseaux wrote on 2016-11-14 11:16:

Re: [DISCUSS] Documentation

2016-11-14 Thread Martin Desruisseaux
Le 14/11/16 à 19:10, Manfred Moser a écrit : > Switching from Asciidoc to OpenOffice seems like a recipe for disaster to me. > Asciidoc (or asciidoctor) is very capable for PDF creation and is used in > publishing companies like OReilly. On my side I used at different time OpenOffice, Asciidoc,

Re: [DISCUSS] Documentation

2016-11-14 Thread Manfred Moser
Switching from Asciidoc to OpenOffice seems like a recipe for disaster to me. Asciidoc (or asciidoctor) is very capable for PDF creation and is used in publishing companies like OReilly. And as you mentioned you can use your version control system nicely. With OpenOffice you would loose the ab