> > > Well, I have tried both DITA and OO and here's what I think. > > DITA + SYNTEXT: > 1. very professional looking > 2. hard to use, it takes time to put your projects into it, not good > for new users. > 3. It makes it a bit easier if you copy another XML file and edit it. > Someone from jallib group has to add your xml file to the main ditamap > file. > 4. I am not able to BOLD or change text size. Well, I am able to, but > it would take me much more time to do so. You need to know what > element to use, and there are too many elements with weird names (I'm > sure this can be changed) >
In Serna editor, there are dedicated button for this (bold, italic, underline, new section, new paragraph, new bullet list, new ordered list, ...) You can't change text size, by design, it's done by stylesheets, and this is where you have consistent looking. > 5. command line is nice > 6. more then one person can work on the book at the same time through > seperate xml files. > And even work on the same file, because changes can be merged. > > Open Office: > 1. can be professional looking if we put work into it. I suggest > making an nice template for everyone to use for their projects. > 2. Cannot have more then one person working on it as it is only 1 > file. > You can have master document. > 3. I worry about the size of the book. In the end, with all the pics, > it may be 50mb +, so every time you do an edit, you must upload 50+mb > to svn. > 4. Very easy to use! I can choose my font size, bold, etc. Also, I am > able to copy/past entire pages into OO. This is good for me and new > users, but may be bad for the book if everyone uses different text. > > Is there any way we can have one document for each project in OO and > compile them together? > Yes, with a master document. But it's less flexible than DITA. Master document is "just" inclusion of other docs. With DITA, and ditamaps, you can take a document, and put it anywhere in the TOC. A dita doc can thus be a chapter (at heading 1 level), a section (at heading 2 level), a sub-section (at heading 3 level), ... Thanks for your feedback. Cheers, Seb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
