I think this would be a great idea. It would be great in terms of updating lyx documentation for instance. Anybody finding a bug or in the documentation or updating the documentation should be able to make changes and send the file back. The documentation maintainer ideally would be able to take multiple documents with fixes at once and update the original source with them.
Rather than a set of marks where changes were made as proposed below I would prefer to see a diff like facility that showed where there were changes between files and allowed the user to choose to accept the change to the original or not. The closest I have seen to this kind of facility is in the envy software package that you can get for some versions of Smalltalk. Ralph Boland Nirmal Govind wrote: >Hi.. I was wondering if anyone's thought of implementing a >revisions/changes tracker in LyX? So for e.g., if someone sends me a Lyx >(Latex) file, then I open (import) it in Lyx, and the changes that I >make are "tracked" so that after I make all my changes, when I view the >output, there'll be some marker/comment that says what changes were made >at the point where the changes were made.. so when I send this file >back the person at the other end will be able to immediately see the >changes that I made.. what would be even cooler is if there's an option >to strip off markers/comments after the other person accepts/rejects the >changes.. > >I just recently used this feature in MS Word and thought it was really >cool for collaborative work.. something that might be worth >incorporating in LyX in the future cos I'm not aware of any latex >processor that does this.. is there any addon that can be used with LyX >to do this right now? > >Thanks, >nirmal > >
