Replacing Docbook

[David T.]

> On Aug 28, 2015, at 3:38 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> The screenshots are all there on my system, although many of them are improperly sized. 
> That's probably because we have been sloppy at that in our docbook version as well and just 
> relied on the images being viewed at 100% size. That's probably not ok in odt which is geared 
> towards printing.

Sizing errors due to our own laxity should probably get fixed anyhow. 

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> And worse: I did one single edit - remove the vertical docbook2odf banner. I did so by removing 
> the page header in the page settings.
> This resulted in a git diff of a whopping +1351/-1368 line changes. Most of the changes are 
> arbitrary like styles changing names, changing regional settings, adding soft-page-breaks,…

It seems to me that inserting soft page breaks would be a deal breaker. I don’t want that happening behind my back.

> 
> Of course this can all be easily committed into git. However it will be rather difficult to follow 
> changes made if the patches are so full of gratuitous changes.
> 
> If we can't get libreoffice to make less noisy diffs, it's very unlikely it will be in improvement 
> over the current situation.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
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