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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:45:52PM +0700, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> MS Windows side: MS Office/What ever you like + Adobe Acrobat Distiller 5=
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> UNIX side: Lyx || whatever you like
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> All documents exchange is done with PDF format.
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> The trick is to manage people working on the same project that such thing=
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> "Document" always has its owner and maintainer. And if I'm not the owner =
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> document I assume the following unbreakable rules:
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> 1. I'm not willing to deal with document in any other format except PDF.=
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> Printing *Office documents is always PITA, regardless to is it MS or K or=
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> Open or some other office.
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> 2. I'm not willing to investigate/change/fix/etc original document - this=
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> the document author's responsibility to maintain it and I usually have lo=
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> of own things to do.
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> 3. As a result of p.1 and p.2 I'm not interested how exactly the author b=
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> this PDF i'm reading now.

Nice idea, but in practice this can't work.  In the end it's often the goal
to produce one big ``final document'', for example a requirements
specification for a piece of software.  If you hand in the chapters as
different documents typeset with different programs or even using different
fonts within one program you'll get a big unprofessional looking mess.

Regards,
Peter
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--
"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer
 is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically
 and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic
 experience much like composing poetry or music."
							-- Donald Knuth

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