TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:Re: CVS and Word docs From:cwebber -at- seagull -dot- nl To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:08:22 -0600
Hi everyone,
Thanks for all the feedback so far! You're welcome to add any more
information!
Barb,Nayanika,
I have no choice in the matter. Personally i would also go for something
else but CVS is all i'm offered due to budget contraints.
>From what i have turned with looking through the archives are:
- to diff the files, Word does a better job, since CVS does not.
- apparently when changes are committed once a day, the archive copy gets
bigger and slower as well. The only way i can make this a little easier is
to make docs smaller in size.So far i have been able to group docs
according to component/module.
I am one writer of two and we're handling completely different sets of
docs, so the problem of multiple writers committing different changes is
small..so anything that happens when i start with this, will be my fault!
;)
By Merging, i mean using Word to compare any diffs between the files.
What is the first thing that i should start with first? Besides grouping
topics into the appropriate module/component doc, according to what i have
read, only the necessary files (e.g .hh,.hpj,.rtf, and so forth) are kept
in the CVS. Images are kept in a separate folder on the network.
Am i starting in the right direction?
Thanks!
Cheryl
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
All-new RoboHelp X3 is now shipping! Get single sourcing, print-quality
documentation, conditional text and much more, in the most monumental
release ever. Save $100! Order online at http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l
Buy ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 6.0, the most powerful SINGLE SOURCE HELP
AUTHORING TOOL for MS Word. SAVE $100 on the full version and $50 on the
upgrade. Offer ends 10/31/2002 (code: DTH102250). http://www.componentone.com/d2hlist1002
---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.
