On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:03:14PM +0900, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > 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.
You mean that kind of stuff when you sent out a contract proposal as .lyx file and the recipient is able to read all earlier versions when he looks on the file with a text viewer? I like this idea. This reminds me pretty much of the only reason why I like receiving .doc files... Andre'
