Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 12:59:05 Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now > how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as > well. > > I use monoton

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:25:55 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > If you work with latex in an editor, most do line wrapping without > inserting line breaks, although you would probably need to work with the > editor at a sane width so lines won't wrap across the whole screen. > > I just looked at the lyx

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/25/2009 07:16 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: [snip] There's .fodt, too, which is similar, but everything's in one file,and is *not* compressed. Unfortunately, the entire document now appears to be one line of text. In the test I performed, it put one line of text per paragraph.

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Jeff Chimene
Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git Posted by Cory Doctorow, February 13, 2009 6:39 AM | permalink For the past couple weeks, I've been working with Thomas "cmdln" Gideon (host of the fabulously nerdy Command Line podcast) on a free software project for writers called "Flashbak

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:25:57 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:41:10 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom: > >> > >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:41:10 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hendrik Boom: >> >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >> how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:20:26 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 12:59 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >> how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > and porting latex to dos would be ... well too > much. > There have been DOS versions of TeX and friends since the late 1980's, possibly even earlier, such as emTeX. -- I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. --

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:33:41 +0100 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom: > >> > >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now > >> how useful VCSs are for programming, I

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:41:36 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" wrote: > > From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:59 PM > > Subject: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version > control >

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with >version control >Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:20:26 -0600 > >>On 02/10/2009 12:59 PM, Hendrik Boom

RE: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Stackpole, Chris wrote: >> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom >> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:59 PM >> Subject: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version > control >> >> I'd like a word processor c

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hendrik Boom: >> >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >> how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as >> well. > > I wonder why you didn't

RE: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:59 PM > Subject: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control > > I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > (hereafter a

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hendrik Boom: > > I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now > how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as > well. I wonder why you didn't even mention LaTeX in your pos

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 12:59 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as well. I use monotone as my VCS. but I

Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as well. I use monotone as my VCS. but I don't suppose my trials are unique to monoton