On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:38:04AM -0700, Mike Ressler wrote:
>
> As a side note, I've noticed that diffs are a terrible way of trying to
> see what is different in a LyX doc. The diff itself is impossible to read
[snip]
> into LyX :-) Perhaps we should do something "silly" like put all edits in
> blue or underlined or something until the change is mutually agreed on or
> some such. Any recommendations for dealing with this?
This is where I come in handy. :)
Mike, don't "Put things in blue or underline or someting like that," which
will screw up the documentation style. Do what we all did in the days
before wordprocessors that magically keep track of every change by
every contributor, wax the kitchen floor, and brew you a cup of tea.
Just send doc-snippets back and forth. This is exactly what I did
during the First Great Rewrite days.
First, never have more than one person working on the same part of the
document at the same time. That means you'll be passing a lyx file
with the morphing text back and forth between only two people:
yourself and the contributor. If it's just a paragraph that's going
into section 3.2.1, then just ship that paragraph back and forth. If,
however, it's all of section 3.2.1, start the fragment *.lyx with
this:
1. Placeholder section
1.1 Placeholder subsection
1.1.1 <!-- The real title of section 3.2.1 goes here -->
This way, if there's also a section 3.2.1.1 and 3.2.1.2 that your
contributing author will be working on, you can preserve the
WYSIWYM-look of the doc-fragment undergoing change.
--
John Weiss
"Not through coercion. Not by force. But by compassion. By
affection. And, a small fish." -His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama
