[TYPO3-english] Bye-bye OpenOffice, welcome ReST

Xavier Perseguers xavier at typo3.org
Wed Aug 21 10:15:10 CEST 2013


Hi Dmitry,

> Xavier Perseguers wrote:
>> You may find useful resources to do so in the TYPO3 wiki [1] but to be
>> honest, as of today, this describes the relative *hard way* to switch to
>> this new format since it shows you how to install a complete environment
>> from scratch.
> 
> Authors need really good reasons to switch from a convenient WYSIWYG
> editor to a system, which is even hard to install :)

Partly true, it's not hard to install and I never found OOo convenient :)

> What benefits do *authors* have from using the new system? I am
> interested in that as author of several extensions. What good would the
> new system do for me? If there is nothing, why would I switch?

Georg already gave valid points.

I see:

- Rock-solid styles which just cannot show you a whole paragraph into
the TOC when updating it (typical problem with OOo)

- Consistent styles

- Concentrate on content, not how to trick the editor to do what you want

- Collaborative work (not thinking solely about extension authors
because most of the time only 1 person work on a document but generally
for in-house documentation)

- Straightforward update of images as they are not included in the
document but linked from a directory, change the picture there,
documentation uses it even if you resized it in your document

- (not specifically for extension authors) Nothing to do to reuse
content as part of the website with custom branding, output as PDF, ...


and of course as already mentioned:

- Easy diff, versioning, ...

but not as "main points" since I agree this is more a point from a
"developer" pov.


Xavier


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