Re: XML Layout in .abw files

My mom and the church secretary don't care about
diffing files. It's a use case we haven't designed for
nor cared about, and I'm not sure that we're going to
start now.

Come up with a proposal and file a bug if it bothers
you enough.

Dom

--- Charles Goodwin <charlie@vexi.org> wrote:

>
> "Vexi Reference.abw" 176L, 65382C
>
> 65 thousand columns?! I tried editting this in Vim.
> It was unusable
> (part a failing of vim because it sucks
> performance-wise with such wide
> documents) and the document uneditable because there
> was no way to get
> about such a wide document.
>
> But the part where I've found this to be a big pain
> is in diffs
> between .abw documents. I'm currently writing a
> large document [0] as
> part of a team, and we will be using darcs [1] to
> post patches and
> updates. But this is really difficult when .abw's
> are laid out as they
> are. Patches are obscenely large, and can rarely be
> independent of
> eachother because the content is kept on so few
> lines.
>
> Surely it would be more sensible to reverse the
> lines:cols ratio by
> being more astute with the layout of .abw XML? Is
> there are particular
> reason that it's like it currently is? I'm sure the
> ability to diff
> files is not the only way in which the
> large-columnar approach causes
> difficulties.
>
> [0]
>
http://darcs.vexi.org/charlie/docs/Vexi%20Reference.abw
> (It's not very large yet, but it will be.)
> [1] http://abridgegame.org/darcs
> --
> - Charlie
>
> Charles Goodwin <charlie@vexi.org>
> Online @ www.charlietech.com
>
>

                
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Received on Fri Aug 13 13:56:21 2004