On 3/16/07, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:51:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no problems with that as long as this is a concious decision of the user. However, having things like my user name and modification/access date dumped silently into the file is no option.
An alternative would be to support an RCS format where everything is explicitly saved forever, so e.g. you not only know when the document was printed, but also can revert to the version for which pdflatex was run successfully. This would have saved me many times from latex producing some unintelligible error with no indication of how to fix it or which change caused it. This should allow you to not only tell if one document is newer than another, but also if they are forked, and if they are forked how to merge the changes. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
