Concerning Re: Keyword substitution on Word Do
Garrett Rooney wrote on 25 Jul 2003, 7:01, at least in part:
> Sindbad the Seafarer wrote:
> > Matt,
> > maybe OpenOffice could help you? I have not used it so far,
> > however, from what I read on it it saves files i.a. in XML format while
> > it can also read/write Word docs. (http://www.openoffice.org/).
>
> You'd think the fact that they use XML would make it work, but it
> doesn't. An OpenOffice file is actually a compressed file containing
> several other files, including some XML. So to Subversion it looks like
> a binary file, so you're stuck in the same place you were with a word
> document.
Thus in the end still kind of propriatary file format, even if they lay
open *how* they compress ...
Jan Hendrik
> -garrett
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Fri Jul 25 16:17:49 2003