On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > Le 06/11/2015 10:06, Stephan Witt a écrit : >> >> In this sense there is no need to reduce the likely-hood of merge >> conflicts >> with the state of change tracking. It's not a setting to toggle often, >> IMHO. > > > Well, since some people do change it often (if only to piss off their > co-author :), we could try to see how to mitigate the problem IMO. > > JMarc >
Using change tracking continuously will make a huge mess of your document. Imagine moving a float one paragraph down, none of your co-authors cares probably (as the float is floating anyway), but the on the screen it clutters everything. I always have to take care to accept the stuff not really relevant for my co-authors to review, such that they focus on the parts that changed meaning or not. I often disable change tracking when fixing small things, when incorporating previous feedback from co-authors, when doing LyX/LaTeX special stuff, when writing a large new paragraph (it hurts the eyes looking at that as change) and afterwards I will either cut and paste it to show that it is added or my coauthors will know that that part is new. Then, the LyX documentation is supposed to be _the_ workflow in which the current setting of track changes is optimal. Looking in Math.lyx, and UserGuide.lyx in master and in 2.1.x, they all have "\track_changes false". So, it is not working like it is now. I'm not against having a document setting whether the document is using track changes or not, I'm just against storing whether I accidentally had it enabled or not when I saved the document. Vincent
