[wplug] Writing Tech Manuals

[Brian A. Seklecki]

> No.  One of the bigger mistakes the OOo people made was the inability to
> safe OOo files as uncompressed XML (OOo files are natively compressed

I don't see this as a big issue.  F/OSS has tackled bigger problems
(GCC?).  To implement revision control with OO docs, the following would
have to happen:

- Pre- and Post- hooks before commits / diff's to decompress to a buffer
- A preformatted, cleartext may to illustrate diff's in $SVN_EDITOR
- A way to store load XML diff meta-data into OO for visual revision
comparison a-la Word change control

~BAS

> XML)  If that had been an option, OOo would have been wonderfully useful
> with version control systems.  Alas, they don't seem to have considered
> that.