On 06/26/2015 03:59 AM, Jeff Hooker wrote:
Before you throw up your hands and say “We’ve been through this!”,
please give me just a few lines to present an idea to you.
I understand that you think Word-style track changes is unworkable in
XMLmind for a number of reasons. Ok, in truth I’m not all that fond of
Word-style change tracking either because of all the noise it adds to
the authoring window.
However, your current “Compare Versions” feature already has all of the
features that I’d like to see in “Track Changes”, except that it needs
two different versions of the document to work. If data that you encoded
in processing instructions at the bottom of the file segmented the
changes made **by session**
The single processing instruction found at the bottom of an XML file
where "Activate Change Detection"
(http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/changesMenu.html)
has been activated stores just the serial numbers of the elements of the
document.
Therefore, implementing your idea is more complicated than you think.
then you’d be able to compare the document
against other versions of itself, and achieve a version of tracked
changes that is actually more flexible and useful than Word-style
tracked changes could ever be.
The fact that an author would need to pause to run a compare in order to
see what he’d done is, frankly, a detail. The feature would nicely fill
the differencing gap needed during active authoring.
Just my opinion.
We share your opinion and had more or less the same idea.
We would really like to make our "Compare Revisions" feature
(http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/comparePane_primer.html)
usable without the need of storing revisions in a document repository.
The fact that you also estimate that this would make our "Compare
Revisions" feature more useful encourages us to attempt implementing
this idea.
This being said, 1) we haven't found a simple and elegant way to
implement it yet 2) this new implementation of the "Compare Revisions"
feature is not yet at the top of our TODO list. (We would like to finish
implementing DocBook 5.1 support --
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/addons_doc.html#docbook51_config -- but
this also depends on the work of the DocBook committee)
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