>> What's wrong with LibreOffice?
>
> Is there any reason to think it doesn't have the same disease mentioned
> in the previously-cited thread, namely that any change trashes pretty
> much the whole file?
>
> That might be okay for things that we only change once every ten years
> or so, but otherwise it would be very git-history-unfriendly.
>
> It's possible that we could solve that with some sort of SVG normalizer
> (think pgindent for SVG) that we're careful to use before committing.
> But I'm afraid that we'd still have issues with significantly different
> output from different versions of LibreOffice, for example.
Do we really need git history for each figure? It seems we are waiting
for a solution which will never realize.
Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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