On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 05:27:44PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 27/09/2015 08:47, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
> >If there are changes from multiple authors in a LyX file, the LyX
> >display shows different colors for each author. But when "Show changes
> >in output" is checked, the PDF only uses one color to show changes.
> >Attached is an example file.
> >
> >The LaTeX shows that this is expected:
> >\DeclareRobustCommand{\lyxadded}[3]{{\color{lyxadded}{}#3}}
> >
> >In other words, the color does not depend on the author. We do call
> >\lyxadded with the name of the author though.
>
> The author name and the date are output for tex2lyx' sake IIRC.
Ah good to know.
> >If we want to improve this, I see a few possibilities:
> >
> >1. Because \lyxadded passes the author name, we could have the color
> >depend on the name. I'm not sure of the best way to do this.
>
> The color associated to an author could be defined in preamble
>
> \lyxchangescolor{scott}{blue}
>
> It might be that the color should be passed using some other form (rgb?)
>
> I can write the requested macros once we know what the interface is.
>
> >2. \lyxadded could pass a color as an additional argument.
>
> For backwards compatibility, it could be an optional argument
> \lyxadded[blue]{author}{date}{text}
Good idea. I catch myself postponing thinking about backwards
compatibility until a later stage. I hope that someday I will learn to
think about it immediately, as I should.
> It would be nice also if the author and date were put to use at least in PDF
> form. Is there a way to define a tooltip with hyperref?
Yes this would indeed be nice.
> After searching a bit, I founf pdfcomment.sty, but it seems that only
> acrobat reader shows these.
Maybe a subset of the features are cross-platform? I compiled the
PDF-comment.lyx file and in Okular I could see some of the annotations.
I suppose we just need one to work, and that if it doesn't work the PDF
still displays correctly, just without the feature.
Scott
>
> JMarc
