On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Andre Poenitz wrote:
You mean that kind of stuff when you sent out a contract proposal as
.lyx file and the recipient is able to read all earlier versions when he
looks on the file with a text viewer?
I like this idea. This reminds me pretty much of the only reason why
I like receiving .doc files...
Sarcasm aside, I've summarize the comments of this thread and placed them
here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/MetadataInFile
I find this contract example interesting from the point of view of version
control. While composing your draft of the agreement, you probably want
revision capabilities. Then you send the recipeient a file, and you *dont*
want him to be able to see your old revisions. The recipient will then
revise the file, and he would possibly appreciate revision capabilities
while doing this - perhaps to compare his changes to the original version.
Then when sending it back to you, the recipient doesn't want *you* to be
able to see his internal revisions. And finally, you probably would like
to use revision capabilities to see what the recipient changed compared to
the version that you sent him...
How well would change tracking deal with this today? Aren't changes
stored inside the LyX file?
/Christian
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