On Tue, Jul 15 2008, John Devereux wrote:
>
> Is there a way to automatically "highlight changes" to a document,
> such that the resulting PDF has markers showing changed areas? Bars in
> the margin or some such. Or more generally some other way to easily
> communicate what has been changed (other than a diff on the source).
I'm sorry, this _is_ a diff on the source:
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060806.143457.47021821.en.html
But the result can be quite nice.
I've also a module, that makes a table to communicate some changes to the
reader. It's attached. Typeset it with "texexec --mode=demo t-changes".
Cheers, Peter
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\ifx \iere \undefined \def\iere {\highordinalstr{re}} \fi
\def\In[#1,#2]{\doifsomething{#1}{\in[#1]}\if\relax#2\else, \In[#2]\fi}
\enableregime[utf]
\unprotect
\newcount\RevC
\def\Changes[#1]{%
[EMAIL PROTECTED], labels=, #1]% modif, labels, date
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@modif{%
\translate[fr=1\iere\ version,en=First version,de=Erste Version]}}%
\global\advance\RevC by 1 \bTR
\expanded{\bTD \the\RevC \eTD}%
\expanded{\bTD [EMAIL PROTECTED] \eTD}\expanded{\bTD [EMAIL PROTECTED] \eTD}%
\expandafter\bTD [EMAIL PROTECTED],\relax]\eTD
\eTR}
\def\startChanges{%
\bTABLE[option=stretch, textwidth=\textwidth]
\bTR[background=screen]
\bTD \translate[fr=Rév, en=Rev, de=Rev].\eTD
\bTD \translate[fr=Date, en=Date, de=Datum]\eTD
\bTD \translate[fr=Origine de la mise à jour, en=Reason for update,
de=Grund der Änderung]\eTD
\bTD \translate[fr=§ modifié, en=modified §, de=mod. §en]\eTD\eTR}
\def\stopChanges{\eTABLE}
\protect
\doifnotmode{demo}{\endinput}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%D Usage example:
\usemodule[changes]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\starttext
\title{The big title}
\startChanges
\Changes[date=1.1.2001]
\Changes[date=2.2.2002, labels=sec:a, modif=Added text from Tufte]
\Changes[date=3.3.2003, labels=sec:b, modif=Added text from Knuth]
\Changes[date=4.4.2004, labels={sec:a,sec:b}, modif=Added even more text]
\stopChanges
\subject{Contents}
\placecontent
\section[sec:a]{First section}
\input tufte
more text
\section[sec:b]{Second section}
\input knuth
more text
\stoptext
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