> I never even try to share documents between different programs, such > as Word and LO or OO.
I never even try to share documents between two users using both the same program *and* the same document template, if the program is Word (or LO /OO). With these applications, the re-use of content is exclusively limited to raw, unformatted text. Trying anything else will drive you up the walls. If you need collaborative authoring, you need something that *imposes* a pre-defined document structure (such as e.g. an XML schema, LaTeX document classes unfortunately are not as restrictive) and thus absolutely locks out *any* possiblity of "finger-painting", and preferrably something that also provides seamless integration for revision control systems such as e.g. Subversion. With LyX/LaTeX, structured XML authoring applications (or some document processing applications like Worperfect or Framemaker, provided the authors are perfectly disciplined), collaborative authoring is possible to a certain degree. With Word (or LO/OO) it is strictly impossible at any reasonable degree of efficiency. If there was a way in LO/OO to imperatively re-strict the user interface for a certain document to the application of styles defined within the document, this might improve things, but given how styles are implemented in LO/OO, I doubt that it would really work. Besides that styles don't hold structure information anyway, since templates aren't schemas in LO/OO. Sincerely, Wolfgang -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
