Re: [Bug-gnubg] Re: Tutorial 2.00 - Comments

[Øystein Johansen]

Read this nice article about using Microsoft Word:

http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm

It points out one of the dangers of using MS-Word. Not that a revision 
log is bad for our project, but Word is such a big, bloat application 
that it's nearly impossible to control the document. It's also saved in 
a undocumented binary format, and that will make our revision control 
trickier. What if two of us is editing the same document at the same 
time? Using a a plain text document format is much better for this 
purpose. texi can be a candidate, so can LaTeX.

And if the master document is in MS-Word, it demand that the user is 
sitting on a Windows computer and uses MS-Word as his Word processor 
application. This is absolutly not what the GNU philosophy is about. GNU 
philosophy says things should be free, that free to choose, free to use 
what ever Operating System I want, free to cooperate with other 
developers and free from all closed file formats. Using MS-Word blocks 
some of the possibility for the developers and documentation writers to 
cooperate.

If Albert allows it, we should decide to use some kind of plain text 
based format of the master document, and add it to the CVS.
Albert, do you have write access to the CVS?

Just my 0,15  NOK,
-Øystein