Christopher,
>Until I downloaded the Office Suite I felt a
> little excluded and had to scramble to be able to read the existing docs.
Ok, it took a little bit of effort to download OpenOffice and install it but
now that you did, do you have any comments on the pluses or minuses of having
intimate access (and instant editing capabilities) to all of the documentation
(including drawings) that was present there? From my perspective, all of the
information is in one place under the control of one tool and can be easily
edited and maintained.
Actually, the OpenOffice files that are in the CVS are just my personal
scratchpad documents that I decided to place under version control in my little
corner of the repository. I bet you are the first person that has looked at
them besides myself! (BTW, anyone that wants to place a personal scratchpad
folder in the CVS feel free!)
As for the core documents I agree, our next step is definitely to start
developing them... as soon as we can agree on a file format.
> My personal style is to use a drawing tool (Word, Visio or
> OfficeSuite/StarOffice) to create the graphics then drop them into an WYSWYG
> html editor
Well, what do we do when it is discovered that one of the drawings has an error
in it or that it needs to be updated? My opinion is that the source drawing
document that the JPEG snapshot was taken from needs to be under version
control and in a format that is easily editable using open tools.
And really, I do not care what tool we select as long as it has the power of an
office suite, uses open XML file formats and is open source.
It just so happens that OpenOffice meets these criteria but I would gladly look
at other alternatives that meet them too.
Ted
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