Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:24:41PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > This of course essantially blows the project dead. We simply cannot do > that in 2 months of time. And it also is probably too expensive. > Any idea to get it done with about 2 months of paid time? For the feature as such? As I sa

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:06:06PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > the "new" flag and "deleted text" the deleted flag. I am not so sure > concerning format changes, though. We could always offer it without tracking format changes. > Numbers for somebody working on that as a paid job? Ok, bold gues

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:04:41PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Do you mean "just" calling wdiff? I looked into Word a little bit and it > enables you to write stuff inside that revision control mode. That is > deleting text already present when you change into the mode means it > just gets mark

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:24:38PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Which ones exactly? Either I have missed a mail or two, or it is still > unclear which level of support for revision mode your customer needs. Actually it's also still unclear for me. But I will just describe what we can do and then

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> Is the "call an external program" version fine with him? If so Andre> I think it can be hacked together until November with a time Andre> spend on the job in the range of a few days. I don't think Andre> there is a need for a forma

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:05:30PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > we had some good ideas coming up about that revision mode Which ones exactly? Either I have missed a mail or two, or it is still unclear which level of support for revision mode your customer needs. > but I have yet to get a feeli

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Meskes
Hi again, we had some good ideas coming up about that revision mode but I have yet to get a feeling for the time it will take to implement it. Is anyone out here interested in programming this? How long would you expect it to be? I have to tell the customer something pretty soon and as long as I

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> You still have not really answered the question how it should Andre> look like in the end, and as there are orders of magnitudes Andre> between "the easy way" and "all bells and whistles" you cannot Andre> expect real answers to yo

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 07:19:01AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > So who would be able to/is interested in doing this? I think the general interest is there, even if it is just because "having features is nice". > What do you charge per day? [Intentionally left unanswered. Nothing unreasonable

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-13 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:22:56PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > I want to see what I used to use at work. There is a LyX-internal > "changelog" mode, that places changebars alongside each paragraph that > changes. > ... Here's the news from our customer: He's not sure he has the money as he has to

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-12 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:48:28PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > Probably not. Consider also the 'comment' LaTeX package, allowing you to > comment out and selectively process parts of your document. Would be a > nice addition. But in this case we want to process the whole thing anyway, no ?

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-12 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:22:56PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:46:25PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > Could you be a bit more specific as to what kind of UI you want? Like "Is > > running an external program like xxdiff sufficient" or "build-in support by > > LyX" (

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-12 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:46:25PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Could you be a bit more specific as to what kind of UI you want? Like "Is > running an external program like xxdiff sufficient" or "build-in support by > LyX" (if so, what exactly should it look like) etc. I want to see what I used

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:46:25PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Could you be a bit more specific as to what kind of UI you want? Like "Is > running an external program like xxdiff sufficient" or "build-in support by > LyX" (if so, what exactly should it look like) etc. As Jean-Luc already pointe

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:38:17PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I did experiments using the wdiff utility some time ago: > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg16018.html > > Is that what you mean? Yes, this surely looks like what our customer was talking about. I have

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 03:54:44PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Anyway, I found a customer who's using LyX quite a lot and who's looking > for a revision mode like the one he knows in MS Word. That is he wants > to see which changes were made to the document. I take it some of you > know what I

Re: Showing changes between files

2002-08-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Hi, I'm not sure if anyone here still remembers me, but I'm Michael> still using LyX. :-) Michael> Anyway, I found a customer who's using LyX quite a lot and Michael> who's looking for a revision mode like the one he knows in