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We fixed this at my company by converting our documents to markdown and using git. Can can also use LaTeX. They're honestly better formats for things like user

We fixed this at my company by converting our documents to markdown and using git. Can can also use LaTeX. They're honestly better formats for things like user manuals anyways because its trivial to display them on web and devices. We have our non-technical editors using Markdown and git just fine, but you may have a lot of initial resistance. We were able to force them to switch because we're mostly a tech company. They hated it at first even though they love it now. Never found a good solution to powerpoint

6c696e7578 6y ago
> Never found a good solution to powerpoint tpp or LibreOffice's Impress. Using open formats diff better. There's also the homebrew method I use where I decompress the document and store that tree in git too, sometimes it helps and is easy to recompress into document format. It's part of my regular checkin script. Long story short, some recruiters don't like pdf's (from LaTeX) so I've got a mixed setup of LaTeX and libreoffice. The LaTeX copy produces several different documents with varying amounts of personal information. This is toggled through variables in the script so some outputs are web-safe (nothing but email), some I sent to recruiters which have temporary phone numbers on which are disconnected when I'm FTE. The other has a real SIM mobile on that I use on company internal job boards. LaTeX wins here, but to keep some recruiters happy I copy the changes into an odt format. Yes I know about Calibre.
yesbabyyes 6y ago
> Never found a good solution to powerpoint There are lots of markdown presentation tools, I've enjoyed using https://remarkjs.com/ https://remarkjs.com/ which sounds like it could fit your workflow.