On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, gar wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2004, at 9:58 PM, SteveKing wrote:
>
> > gar wrote:
> >
> >> I'm working on a project involving production and translation of
> >> documents from English to Arabic and sometimes the other way around.
> >> This involves 20+ people scattered around the world. Up to now we've
> >> used MS Word. Version control has been a nightmare.
> >
> > No matter what version control system you're using, as long as you're
> > using MS Word it will always be a nightmare (kind of), because you
> > can't merge MS Word documents in an easy way.
>
> Amen. I've almost convinced my boss that XML is the way to go, but
> there's that monster "but everybody knows how to use Word" hurdle to
> get over.
You can have both: Use OpenOffice SWriter, which looks like Word but
saves in XML.
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Received on Tue Nov 30 20:06:02 2004