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I am in contact with Henrik Just, the developer of Writer2LaTeX, concerning implementation of comments and possibly track changes into the export from odt format to LaTeX. As I am using LyX, the second step is the import into LyX, and the import should be working fine as well. So the question he asked (see below our conversation) how LyX imports track changes. As I do not know the internals of LyX, I am posting the question here. I know that LyX has track changes, but I do not know if there is any mechanism to import them from a different format. If there is not, I think this would be a brilliant functionality to incorporate, especially in the light of co-operation with doc users: One could export the document to odt, convert it to doc an send it to them. They could use track changes and comments in the usual way, and via ooffice to convert the doc to an odt, Writer2LaTeX could be used to import the document including the track changes and comment into LyX. This functionality would bring us a huge step closer to simplifying the working together with non-LyX / LaTeX users and therefore make LyX much more interesting for the yet unconverted. So - can somebody shed some light on Hendrik's question, if and in which form LyX imports track change information? And if it does not - would there be somebody interested from the LyX side to bring this aspect forward? Cheers, Rainer P.S: at this URL, you can find the initial discussion which led to the question and the relevant mails: https://sourceforge.net/projects/writer2latex/forums/forum/919908/topic/3917061/index/page/1 2010-11-01 15:20:21 SAST Hi Rainer Of course author and date information should be added to comments, this change just made it into version 1.1.5, which is released today. It's already possible to configure the export of notes, for example w2l -notes marginpar document.odt to export as a marginpar. For details, see http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/doc1.2/user-manual14.html#toc32 I didn't plan to convert track changes, but of course it would be possible. Can you give an example why this would be useful? Best regards Henrik 2010-11-05 23:47:34 SAST Hi Henrik Thanks for the update concerning the notes - that is really perfect (I like the marginpar and pdfannotation). Thanks a lot for that. Concerning track changes: I am using LyX for my writing, but (unfortunately) work together with users preferring word. Therefore my workflow is to export to odt, open on OO, save as doc --- get comments and track changes --- open in OO, and transcribe the changes into the original LyX document. If the export of track changes would work, I could Open the document in OO abd save as .odt, import into LyX (using w2l) and keep the track changes. This would be quite nice, because I guess I could convince my co-workers to use OO, but not LyX / LaTeX. Hope this clarifies my suggestion and gives a usefull usage example, Cheers, Rainer 2010-11-10 17:28:51 SAST Hi Rainer That's an interesting idea. I wonder in which form LyX will import track changes information? Best regards Henrik - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Tel: +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +27 - (0)8 39 47 90 42 Fax (SA): +27 - (0)8 65 16 27 82 Fax (D) : +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 Fax (FR): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzavbEACgkQoYgNqgF2egpTKACePFTKqRiBxQSZxbhqO4U7YyXT dkgAoInIeN643G0E5L0cxRMRzYZYlyXx =xjYI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
