Comments on: Eat Your Own Dogfood http://www.marcdegraauw.com/2007/12/21/eat-your-own-dogfood/ Some thoughts on meaning, the web and everything Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:42:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Marc de Graauw http://www.marcdegraauw.com/2007/12/21/eat-your-own-dogfood/#comment-6039 Marc de Graauw Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:36:15 +0000 http://www.marcdegraauw.com/2007/12/21/eat-your-own-dogfood/#comment-6039 Dirk: You are right in saying it's not easy. I would prefer to write natively in html, but the html editors around are nowhere as easy to use as an office suite. I usually write in Word, when the doc is stable enough, bite the bullet and convert to html, then maintain in html. I've seen people use wikis for standard writing as well. The editors are not very good, but wikis have lots of advantages - like the community feedback you mention. Dirk:

You are right in saying it’s not easy. I would prefer to write natively in html, but the html editors around are nowhere as easy to use as an office suite. I usually write in Word, when the doc is stable enough, bite the bullet and convert to html, then maintain in html.

I’ve seen people use wikis for standard writing as well. The editors are not very good, but wikis have lots of advantages - like the community feedback you mention.

]]> By: Dirk Temme http://www.marcdegraauw.com/2007/12/21/eat-your-own-dogfood/#comment-6038 Dirk Temme Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:25:42 +0000 http://www.marcdegraauw.com/2007/12/21/eat-your-own-dogfood/#comment-6038 I agree. But I am struggling with that myself, when writing standards documents or manuals or so. I write the doc's in OpenOffice but then I would like to convert it easily to .pdf AND to .html. Pdf is a good option in Oo, and you can also export to .xhtml. But then there is a lot of extra work to be done. The .xhtml needs serious reformatting. And then probably one would like to give readers an opportunity for comments, or some other fancy stuff. So you need to go into xslt, php, ... A bit to much for most document writers. So I am looking for a bit better tooling here. You know some? I agree. But I am struggling with that myself, when writing standards documents or manuals or so. I write the doc’s in OpenOffice but then I would like to convert it easily to .pdf AND to .html. Pdf is a good option in Oo, and you can also export to .xhtml. But then there is a lot of extra work to be done. The .xhtml needs serious reformatting. And then probably one would like to give readers an opportunity for comments, or some other fancy stuff. So you need to go into xslt, php, … A bit to much for most document writers. So I am looking for a bit better tooling here. You know some?

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