Rob, Would it be worth considering using DITA for the documentation/help?
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I'd like to argue for the advantages of DITA as a source format here. I can probably find some volunteers to help enabled this. The Symphony team uses DITA for doc/help, and we've already done the work of converting much of the OOo help to DITA.
What a coincidence <eg> So the Symphony team will contribute their work back to AOOo? I would suggest to talk to localizers to prevent flushing their work down the drain when migrating. Does the DITA implementation of Symphony support all functions that OOo help currently offers, e.g. context-sensitivity, extended tips, text transclusion, etc? When we switched the format of SO/OOo back then, it was a major hassle to include all localizations in the migration. Beware of any side-effects. Frank
