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Originally Posted by PeterT
I know there are compare tools (at least under Windows) that compare the contents of zip files. Wouldn't one option be to recreate the epub from LO and then compare the tweaked epub to the newly created one to determine the changes that had been made, and then apply them to the ODT in LO?
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I doubt it.
I'm in a conversation elsewhere with a chap spitting mad because of requirements his publisher made that are making his life hell, and asked "Are there any reputable mathematical publishers using git for version control?" All I could say was "I don't know of
any trade publisher using git." The standard workflow is "Get the manuscript as a Word doc, do line edits, copy edits and proof reading on teh doc file, and import the approved final copy into Adobe InDesign for markup and typesetting to produce the file for the printer. "Version control" is through Word's Track Changes function.
The folks in publishing are non-technical and would be lost at sea in git. It would need a wrapper that insulated them from the underlying software as much as possible.
Tools that can search inside a zip file for changes must essentially open it and examine the contents. How well they'll do will depend on the content. I don't see this as being a viable notion, but could be mistaken.
And Greg works under Linux, so Windows based tools that might do it won't help him much.
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Dennis