Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 21:25 +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Am 29. Februar 2012 21:10 schrieb Kip Warner :

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One other thing too that I don't know if anyone has ever raised anywhere is that other typesetting applications that store their project files in some kind of proprietary or binary format will probably not be very diff friendly. A big advantage to anything TeXish is that it makes collaboration on a large document much easier because it can be typeset using plaintext documents.

At least InDesign's and Scribus' files have a XML representation and would be diffable/versionable in that format. InDesign's XML format is widely used e.g. in editorial systems; you can also save just snippets (layout parts).

What I was getting at was plain text makes merging of patches easier. Even if you have an XML format, it's still intended to be more machine readable than human readable and applying a set of patches to an XML project file is more likely to break it than ones that were written by hand in the first place. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com