On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:37:39PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm > Precedence: bulk > X-No-Archive: yes > List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ > Path: not-for-mail > From: Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: possible feature - long shot but still.. > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:37:39 -0400 > Organization: Penn State University > NNTP-Posting-Host: statecollegecable-64-178-100-053.ceinetworks.com > X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033069105 25375 64.178.100.53 (26 Sep 2002 19:38:25 GMT) > X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:38:25 +0000 (UTC) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) > X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) > > Hi.. I was wondering if anyone's thought of implementing a > revisions/changes tracker in LyX? So for e.g., if someone sends me a Lyx > (Latex) file, then I open (import) it in Lyx, and the changes that I > make are "tracked" so that after I make all my changes, when I view the > output, there'll be some marker/comment that says what changes were made > at the point where the changes were made.. so when I send this file > back the person at the other end will be able to immediately see the > changes that I made.. what would be even cooler is if there's an option > to strip off markers/comments after the other person accepts/rejects the > changes.. > > I just recently used this feature in MS Word and thought it was really > cool for collaborative work.. something that might be worth > incorporating in LyX in the future cos I'm not aware of any latex > processor that does this.. is there any addon that can be used with LyX > to do this right now? > > Thanks, > nirmal
Hi, this was a big subject of debate perhaps a month ago... yes, there was thinking going on on how to do this. Doing it in the textbook fashion with all the niceties offered by Word is not quite trivial. We do have currently support for version control (CVS/RCS) which would allow you to extract a diff between two versions. However, you wouldn't have the LyX GUI to look at and work with this diff, which is the whole idea I suppose. There was also the idea to harness wdiff (word-diff) as an external process for this. But somehow nothing came of this. It's seriously nontrivial, depending on what features you precisely want. I have myself been working on a related but slightly different idea: different language versions (English/Finnish) of the same doc, to be run off to different output files. A little like tangle/weave in literate programming (I suppose). One system uses different coloured layouts in a layout file (based on the comment or verbatim packages), the other different text colours stripped out selectively by sed scripts. See this list archive. 'Cool'? Sure it's cool in Word. I also heard from a colleague that in his institute manuscripts go around the place, often coming back in such a state -- due to all the annotations and changes on top of changes -- that the file isn't useable anymore, Word crashes and output gets messed up etc. The only solution being having a secretary type it in manually again... you'll agree that LyX shouldn't be THAT cool. Just my mandatory Friday remark. Martin
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