[Osmf-talk] microgrants - second draft policy document

[Christoph Hormann]

On Tuesday 14 January 2020, Allan Mustard wrote:
> I don't know of a software product that can parse versions across
> multiple platforms and software products.  If anybody does, please
> let us know.  Especially if it is freeware.

As Roland already mentioned git and other version control systems are
well suitable for this, especially if you work based on text based
formats (Markdown, Mediawiki, LaTex etc.)

There are editors with direct RCS integration but most people prefer to
do this separately - checking out the current state of the file, making
edits and then committing the changes.  If you for some reason need to
do format conversion because your chosen exchange format is not
supported by your editor that would need to be done as well of course.
But unless you are extremely partisan about this ("i only do text
editing in Word") just pick a suitable editor.  Always keep in mind
that we are not talking about fancy DTP work here, this is about simple
text documents - headings, paragraphs, lists, occasionally a small
table.  Using OpenOffice is already complete overkill for that.  I
would do things like that in a plain text editor without WYSIWYG
anyway.

The most strait away method if you are not familiar with version control
systems is of course just editing the document on the wiki - especially
if it is, like here, a document that will ultimately reside on the wiki
anyway.  But i understand this comes with disadvantages (very limited
editing interface, no comfortable offline editing ability).  But it has
the advantage that most people in the OSM community are familiar with
it.

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Christoph Hormann
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