Friday, June 5, 2009

Re: [BLUG] document management

While you are researching check out Knowledgetree
(http://www.knowledgetree.com/). It indexes Microsoft files and
includes workflows and the extras.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Kirk Gleason<kgleason@gmail.com> wrote:
> You just went way over my head dude. I have a whole list of stuff to
> research tonight now ... :-)
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Steven Black <blacks@indiana.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:32:40AM -0400, Barry Schatz wrote:
>> > Kirk Gleason wrote:
>> > >     * We are working on implementing document management using OSS
>> > >       with a Linux backend.
>> > >
>> > In a pinch, you can use SVN. It's not pretty (and doesn't do diffs), but
>> > it does version binaries. I take it you have a more appropriate solution
>> > in mind?
>>
>> Heh. I've been such a fan of transparent document formats for so long,
>> that at first I had no idea what Barry was talking about. My group
>> manages our internal documents quite well using Subversion...
>> but then our documents are primarily written in Markdown. We use the
>> Ikiwiki wiki compiler for the presentation details.
>>
>> Even for my own documents, I keep them under source control. However for
>> my own documents I prefer reStructuredText. It gives easy outputs to
>> HTML, LaTeX, Postscript, PDF... and with a little web research, you can
>> get others, such as ODT. Through it all, the source file also provides
>> the plain-text form.
>>
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