18 Nov
2011
18 Nov
'11
1:05 a.m.
On Thursday 17 November 2011 12:56:56 pm Calvin Morrison wrote:
On 17 November 2011 12:47, Darrell Anderson
<humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Actually I am almost certain only LibreOffice and the now dead OpenOffice
can import and work in fodt. Odt support is pretty standard
Can someone shed light on this?
I can't speak toward FODT since I don't use it. I think we should just use
plain ODT.
If we use FODT, most distros will include OpenOffice/LibreOffice by default.
It includes a familiar interface closely resembling most other office apps
(except MS Office 2007+, but older version still resemble OOo/LO).
OOo and LO both have Windows/Mac version, some Win/Mac users use it. Not all
people will want to install it, hence my argument in favor of plain ODT,
which is supported by MS Office 2007 and (it now seems) most other office
apps.
--
Kristopher Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/
Excuse me
if I jump in the discussion just to put my 2
cents about the editor.
What about the good old LyX?
http://www.lyx.org/
It's easy to use, it outputs LaTeX, it's multi-platform and
it's Free
Software.
Lyx is a front-end wrapper to LaTeX. Basically then we're back to
discussing markup. :) Lyx could be an option for some documentation
teams, but the internal team still needs to learn LaTex. Doable if those
involved have the time for that kind of thing. :)
Much of our recent discussion has been how to encourage non team members
to contribute where nothing more than everyday word processor skills are
expected.
For internal purposes the leading focus is using a format that is
maintainable in GIT for merging collaborative changes in a team
environment. Hence the arguments in favor of markup, which is text based.
I think we have agreed to ODT, which fundamentally is XML, which is text
based.
ODT allows writers to use any software supporting that format and does
not limit contributors to a specific tool chain.
Darrell