18 Nov
2011
18 Nov
'11
12:47 a.m.
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