On 12.09.2016 15:06, racoon wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to hear what you think about the suggestion in
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10278.
Today I ran into another use case. I have a document with a lot of
tracked changes. Since it also grew over time I wanted to copy parts
into child documents. However, this is currently not possible without
loosing the tracked changes.
Of course rather than copy, I can remove the parts not needed and save
the resulting document as a new child. However, this seems a bit
cumbersome to me.
Also this is impossible if I want sometimes to go the other way around.
If I have two different documents both of which have tracked changes and
want to combine them (or parts of them) into one document that cannot be
done with LyX currently.
Therefore, I suggest the enhancement according to the suggestion.
With the risk that things are already settled and I am just talking to
myself: Here is a thought on the "timestamp" problem (at least as I have
understood it so far - please correct me).
I take it that there is a problem when copy-pasting with *enabled* track
changes a passage that contains tracked changes. What time stamp should
the new passage get? The original one(s) or the new one? I suggest a new
one and that the changes are pasted as additions with the previous
changes applied. So there are no old changes in the new passage. Except
for minor bug fixes, this is the behavior as it is right now.
However, if track changes are *disabled*, I suggest that the tracked
changes are kept and the time stamps replicated. I don't think this
leads to any inconsistencies. There may be changes that happened at the
same time by the same person. But I don't think this is a problem, or?
But please correct me if I am wrong, or have simplified matters too much.
Daniel
