Dear LyX developers (especially John Levon & Lars Gullik Bjønnes I think),
I have noticed that the when current LyX (1.6.2) reads and writes a document containing multiple authors for tracked changes it re-orders the Author List. For example if Andy and Bert are both working on a document, when Andy saves, he will be author 0. If Bert then loads the file adds changes of his own and then resaves he will become author 0 and Andy will become author 1. I think that this resetting has something to do with: BufferList::setCurrentAuthor Insisting that the current author have id 0. This means that diffing lyx files with tracked changes becomes a mess (I version control most of my lyx documents). 2 questions: 1) Would it be possible to stop this resorting of the author list from happening? Perhaps by recording the current author id in the AuthorList rather than insisting that it must be 0 2) more generally would there be something to be said for using a hash value (perhaps computed on author name+email) instead of a simple index for change tracking? That would make it possible to merge two versions of a document one of which contains changes from Andy and the other from Bert without having to rewrite all the author ids. Many thanks, Greg. -- Gregory Jefferis, PhD Division of Neurobiology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/NB/jefferis_g http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gsxej2 http://flybrain.stanford.edu
