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Subject:Re: The Swiss Army Knife of Collaborative Writing From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:01:15 -0700
The export and versioning add-ons from Scroll make Confluence far more
suitable for documentation than any other wiki I've found, and I think
I've looked at all of the ones that are remotely plausible.
Confluence's biggest weakness is that it's too hard to get existing
content in. It has a Word import but some serious bugs that require a
lot of cleanup.
If MadCap integrated Flare with Confluence, now that could be a killer app.
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> wrote:
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> Strongly second Robert's suggestion of confluence or some other wiki. "Collaborative living documents" is exactly what wikis are designed for. Confluence is especially nice because you can export from it easily into PDF or word when it's time to ship.
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