Hi all,
I have compiled the 1.4.0cvs (QT) for testing. It compiles flawlessly on
up-to-date Gentoo.
I am especially interested in the change-tracking feature. It is great that
LyX will support this. When it is in place, my colleagues have promised to
change our collaborative enviroment from pure Latex to LyX. So, I am very
keen to see this happen soon :-)
But there is some work to be done...
First, it seems a little bit broken. It crashes on inserting maths, on any
action from the "Accept change menu", etc. I was about to start filling bug
reports when I realized from the existing ones that it used to work much
better before.
Is the code in the middle of some transitional period and I should rather
wait, or is it just "normally" broken and I should fill bug reports?
Second, I am a bit confused about the dependency on dvipost. I think dvipost
is a great package, however, my prefered backend is pdftex.
I far as I can see, implementing features of dvipost for pdftex is quite a lot
of work to do. So, I was wondering if we can support some simpler
mechanism...
I used to do change-tracking manually with newcommands \add{} and \del{} using
some underlining features of ulem.sty. (changes in color (blue for new text)
are lost when printed in black-and-white...)
I noticed that the exported .tex is not using the full abilities of the
dvipost anyway. It is avoiding all the complicated formating and it is
putting \changestart{} and \changeend{} only around the text.
Would it make any sense to replace \changestart{} by \uline{ (or \uwave{), and
\changeend{} by } ? Similarly, \sout{ in place of \overstrikeon{}, etc.
I tried these replacements on my test document and it works quite well. Of
course, the nice blue side line is lost, but it works with pdftex.
Third, is there anything I can help with? Some junior-job please, my knowledge
of C++ and linux programming is close to zero...
Thanks,
Vasek
