On 10/02/2008 12:04 PM, Douglas St.Clair wrote: > If you are going to share documents with others as part of a team > development effort i.e. where more than one person is responsible for > content then it is best to share them as plain text (ASCII) documents > and add formating (bold, oblique, etc) after there is consensus on > content. > > In order of portability these are my choices for document formats from > most portable to least portable: > > 1. Plain text/ASCII > 2. Rich Text Format (RTF) > 3. Micro$oft .doc or .docx > > All editors should be able to handle plain text with one caveat and > that is line endings. UNIX and UNIX-like (i.e. *BSD and LINUX) > Macintosh and DOS (Windoze) all use different line endings. Chose one > that is incompatible with the recipient's editor and they will > probably see one long line of text and perhaps some garbage here and > there. Probably the one that is most compatible across OSes is DOS > (Windoze). >
RTF has considerably worse portability in OOo than MS .doc. On multiple occasions on the users list we've run into this issue and, the end opinion is that RTF is pretty much to be avoided when possible (in OOo). For document collaboration you might explore: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/2 [O3Spaces] or similar. Additional info on other solutions: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Solutions [Content & Document Management Systems, Search Technology] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
