CVS
p. [“John Gruber”:http://www.daringfireball.net/] has written a “brilliantly clear and helpful”:http://www.macworld.com/2003/09/secrets/bbeditversioncontrol/ tutorial for using “CVS(Concurrent Versions System)”:http://www.cvshome.org/ with BBEdit. I had been looking around for a good basic tutorial for a while, but most seemed to concentrate on using CVS from a remote location, rather than locally. It really is handy, especially with HTML files, where there’s a lot of potential to break something quite badly.
p. What I would really like is a similar system for word processing documents. I’m pretty much forced to use Microsoft Word at work for collaborative writing, but the ‘Track Changes’ feature is a bit clunky to use. If heavy editing goes on, the document ends up as a mass of underlined or struck through text in several colours, which gives you a headache even before the editing process does. If I could only persuade all my colleagues to write in LaTeX, I could use BBEdit or Vim and CVS, and I would be a happy little geek bunny. Sigh.
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You may want to look into Open Office. (openoffice.com) .. I don't know how well the change tracking works since I don't ever need to use it (and I once tried to use CVS as well but decided it wasn't worth going insane over learning) .. anyhow it's free and works with MS Office products just fine.. I love it.. it's a little slower opening but it's worth it.----- I used to use Linux, and I used Open Office a lot then. I thought it was great, and I seem to recall that tracking worked just as it does in Microsoft Office--in other words, a bit clunky. Open Office imitates MS Office so well that I don't know why anyone would actually shell out for the latter (I get mine free with a University-wide site licence). But what I'm looking for is something that works differently.
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