-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 20:08, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 19:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/11/07 18:41, Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 15:39 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> >>>>> What do you need in a WP? Academic features (formal citations, >>>>> embedded graphics, TOC, index, etc), movie/theater formating, >>>>> something I haven't thought of? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Just to add another voice. Some of us have to exchange documents with >>>> people who use Word - particularly in work settings, and features like >>>> change tracking, >>> Change tracking in word is a horrible feature. It makes the documents >>> about 170% larger after each set of changes. You ever seen a 3 page >>> specification document 90MB+ in size? I have. It was horrible. Someone >>> could easily turn off revision control and you would lose eveyrthing >>> except the current revision when saved. >> Needing to run a cvs or svn server to access documents just won't >> fly with 99.9% of the computing world. > > How about a simple wiki-type product. Change tracking and the whole > sh-bang. It is the whole reason Wikis were created. If not a wiki, a
A wiki for long, complex and/or important documents? That's crazy. > proper document library with a document publishing system is easily had > and setup. Saving into the library rather than a filesystem is all that > is needed. Heck Exchange is good for SOMETHING, beside e-mail and > scheduling you know. Lotus Notes does it too, as does Groupwise. I didn't know Exchange could do that. >> Besides, seeing people's versions and revisions all together on the >> page is darned useful. Even if MS implemented it poorly. > > I didn't say it wasn't useful. I just said its implementation was > horrific. I see you agree on that. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFz9y1S9HxQb37XmcRAoQHAJ9a0p+ikZUKUD5w1dnLkluTxCkGbQCgovNp //37dO9GYSOXKoqLk93lh/Q= =SzlN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
