[Drifting off topic here...]
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:25:59 -0400
Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:26:26 -0700
> > Andreas Kupries<andre...@activestate.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 4/20/2012 7:34 AM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> >>> ... Things like architectural diagrams wind up there, and ...
> >> I like to program my diagrams, instead of drawing them. Easier to change,
> >> and
> >> the code (aka text) is nicer to version than some binary blob.
> > If I don't need to work on such collaboratively, I'll use graphviz for
> > the same reasons. But google docs is easier to get other people to
> > contribute to.
>
> Don't know about google docs - no real version control. Unusable for
> anything serious, like a multi-author paper or proposal. I always end
> up sharing Word Documents, with change tracking, via email. Gets ugly
> with more than a few people.
I'm still exploring how google docs fits into a small team. So far,
I've just used it for one-page diagrams, and it's worked well there.
Word, on the other hand - never again. The differences between
implementations - different programs, different versions of the same
program, the same version on different platforms - is just to
painful. In one case, I saw word documents that would cause some
*machines* to crash when opened. Other machines (presumably using the
same version of word) would open them just fine. Saving the doc
unaltered on those machines created a doc that didn't cause other
machines to crash.
> Right now, the WikiPedia (or more accurately, MediaWiki) model seems to
> be really effective - what with support for multiple authors, change
> tracking, discussions, etc. Starts to fall down if you want to manage
> a structured document or generate printed versions as an output.
It's certainly proved itself in the real world.
<mike
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