I suspect another issue with using ODT instead of DocBook is that we'd have a single file for the whole document, versus a separate file for each chapter. This means that multiple people working in different sections may very easily collide with each other through git, whereas docbook changes would merge more cleanly.
-derek On Fri, August 28, 2015 3:38 pm, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Friday 28 August 2015 15:48:53 Mike Evans wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:15:58 +0100 >> > I just tried docbook2odf with the guide and it does a reasonably >> > good job. Some imgaes need resizing and there's a "Generated by >> > docbooktoodf" side bar on every page. A little editing though and >> > it should look OK. >> > >> > Using GIT with LibreOffice works quite well after installing some >> > python utils. >> > >> > Mike E >> >> Oh, dear. More scrolling revealed loads of missing images. >> >> Mike E > > I did the same exercise just now. Note that I used the latest svn revision > of docbook2odf (r253) > which is slightly more recent than the ones found on the download page. > > The screenshots are all there on my system, although many of them are > improperly sized. > That's probably because we have been sloppy at that in our docbook version > as well and just > relied on the images being viewed at 100% size. That's probably not ok in > odt which is geared > towards printing. > > During the conversion there was an error for 4 pnm image files not being > found. I suspect > these are the images used to highlight warnings and tips and such. I > didn't see those in the odt > file. > > The image we had in multiple resolutions (the accounting equation) is > added 3 times, probably > because we had specified it 3 times in our source. > > The table of contents is missing as is the list of figures and tables. > > It's getting worse: all cross-references are gone. > > And worse: I did one single edit - remove the vertical docbook2odf banner. > I did so by removing > the page header in the page settings. > This resulted in a git diff of a whopping +1351/-1368 line changes. Most > of the changes are > arbitrary like styles changing names, changing regional settings, adding > soft-page-breaks,... > > Of course this can all be easily committed into git. However it will be > rather difficult to follow > changes made if the patches are so full of gratuitous changes. > > If we can't get libreoffice to make less noisy diffs, it's very unlikely > it will be in improvement > over the current situation. > > Regards, > > Geert > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 [email protected] www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
