On 9/12/06, Wolfgang Keller <wolfgang.keller.nospam@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> >> The main function I need is that
> >>
> >> - several authors can edit the same document simultaneously (without the
> >> requirement to be on-line), without overwriting each other's modifications
> >> - the modifications of the different authors can easily be visualised
> >> (="redlining"), compared and merged
> >> - each author can then easily update his branch with the accepted
> >> modifications
>
> > "Mark Revisions"
>
> Errr, no thanks. That's the mess I aready have in MS Word *duck*.
>
> And it has proven to be completely unusable for the task of efficiently
> editing complex structured documents in parallel by several authors.
Making that possible is not among the primary goals of AbiWord at the moment.
> Subversion has been around for ages for software development, why has noone
> plugged it into a document processing application yet, although the basic
> requirements are the same?
Please read the archives of the developer mailing list. The document
format written by AbiWord is not suitable for putting under
traditional text-file based version control.
> Probably because the "MS way of doing things" has occupied such a mindshare
> not only in the brains of users and buyers, but also of FOSS developers for
> such a long time now that nobody can think in different ways any more. X-(
Thinking in different ways (as you put it) is one thing. Doing things
differently is another. We are wary moving away from traditional word
processing paradigms to not alienate the fair share of existing users
we already have. With great power comes great responsibility. It took
me a while to realise that.
Best,
Rob
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