MS Word supports RTF, as do many many different programs. RTF is basically HTML for text documents, and it can handle most of the formatting that Word can do. Word does stick annoying things like the date in on every save, but it shouldn't be too hard to write code that would filter all of that out to avoid conflicts. Word could read the files just fine. Use with WinCVS and anyone can use it.
It works for text and MS Word, things like powerpoint are another issue.
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MS Word supports RTF, as do many many different programs. RTF is basically HTML for text documents, and it can handle most of the formatting that Word can do. Word does stick annoying things like the date in on every save, but it shouldn't be too hard to write code that would filter all of that out to avoid conflicts. Word could read the files just fine. Use with WinCVS and anyone can use it.
It works for text and MS Word, things like powerpoint are another issue.