Mercurial for not-software projects

[Pietro Moras]

Two
Points have I found here particularly significant: P1)  Tracking
documents … MS Office Database diff tool -/- similarly … MS
Access Database [Angel Ezquerra] 
P2)  a legislative project … a
bit too gnerdy (nerdy?) for most people [john francis lee] 



Which
drive me ask further: 
Q1)  Here the crucial aspect is the
association of the right “diff tool”–browser/editor for any
given type of file to be version controlled. Recently “playing”
with an OpenOffice *.odt file I got such a result: 
“diff -r
6346de817b7a -r 04b820e20150 DummyRep.odt 
Binary file
DummyRep.odt has changed” 
which, of course, is not that much
useful... 
I'd welcome any suggestion about how to possibly
associate a generic  “diff tool”–browser/editor for any given
file type directly to Mercurial. 

Q2)  Easiness / friendliness of
use for people outside the informatics savvy environment. That would
be a quantum leap for a versioning tool. But I fear this is too
engaging a subject to be discussed here; isn't it? 
I'd welcome
your thoughts. Thanks.
 - P.M. 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/attachments/20140219/6b7902a0/attachment-0002.html>