Re: Document versions.

1999-05-24 Thread John Weiss
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:01:26AM +0200, Pierre-Henri Boinnard wrote: > > Hello, > > I think it would ease and clarify the translation work if a version > stamp is included in each document. > > What's your opinion ? Well, when I was head of the LyX Documentation Project wy back whe

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> Ah. I've been thinking of doing the diff outside of LyX, of some Amir> version of a diff on the text of a LyX file. To do it within LyX Amir> has a different set of problems. For example, you have character Amir> formatting information

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Pierre-Henri" == Pierre-Henri Boinnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: Pierre-Henri> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: ... >> I was just thinking about comparing two documents and seeing >> additions/deletions, like diff does for text file. Pierre-Henri> You know, at the begi

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Pierre-Henri Boinnard
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Amir Karger wrote: (about '$' signs) > A footnote to a footnote? A note inside a note? Well, I guess you could say, > "Revision (The preceding sentence was generated automatically. Please do > not edit it or it will break.)" Yes, something like that, if you feel that usef

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:22:52PM +0200, Pierre-Henri Boinnard wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > ... > > That might be getting too complicated. How about a footnote or note inset > > that reads: "Revision $Revision$ of file $RCSfile$, last checked in by > > $Author$ on $Date$."?

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Pierre-Henri Boinnard
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Amir Karger wrote: ... > That might be getting too complicated. How about a footnote or note inset > that reads: "Revision $Revision$ of file $RCSfile$, last checked in by > $Author$ on $Date$."? Better. To bad for the '$' signs. What about having a warning not to remove them,

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Pierre-Henri Boinnard
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: ... > I was just thinking about comparing two documents and seeing > additions/deletions, like diff does for text file. You know, at the beginning, I was just thinking of a way to clarify/simplify version handling of doc translation. All the staff

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:50:32PM +0200, Pierre-Henri Boinnard wrote: > > Exact, it is much better. Maybe using $Revision$ keyword in place of > $Id$ that reads a little bit cryptic. Or $Id$ in a note, and > $Revision$ in a footnote ? That might be getting too complicated. How about a footnote

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Pierre-Henri Boinnard
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > (By the way, Pierre-Henri, I bet Jean-Marc is subscribed to lyx-docs, so you > don't have to send everything to him twice, like he does to me all the > time. :) Ok, I'll do an effort last time. (Excuse moi, Jean-Marc) > This is a really neat idea! But I

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Pierre-Henri Boinnard
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Amir Karger wrote: ... > > It definitely works. reLyXmain.pl (in lib/reLyX) has an $Id$ line in it. I > actually use it for my private RCS'ing, but it gets overwritten whenever I > do a CVS checkin. This is actually useful, because I have the reLyX "welcome > text" grep the

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:59:36PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > I was just thinking about comparing two documents and seeing > additions/deletions, like diff does for text file. > This sounds Hard. Do tools like this exist for, say, HTML? If so, we could probably steal them. What are

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Amir Karger
(By the way, Pierre-Henri, I bet Jean-Marc is subscribed to lyx-docs, so you don't have to send everything to him twice, like he does to me all the time. :) On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:54:25PM +0200, Pierre-Henri Boinnard wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > (about displa

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Pierre-Henri" == Pierre-Henri Boinnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: Pierre-Henri> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: (about Pierre-Henri> displaying version inside the document) >> Maybe a note indicating which version was last translated. Pierre-Henri> I haven't seen yet si

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Pierre-Henri Boinnard
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: (about displaying version inside the document) > Maybe a note indicating which version was last translated. I haven't seen yet side effect of comments in LaTeX preamble, so given a line in the english version such as : %% $Id: test1.lyx,v 1.3 1999

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Amir Karger
Hey! The first official discussion on lyx-docs. Congratulations! On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:26:12PM +0200, Pierre-Henri Boinnard wrote: > In fact, if we add a line like : > > %% $Id$ > > in the LaTeX preamble of a file, it is effectively updated during > checkin. $Id$ in one of the keywords rcs

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Pierre-Henri" == Pierre-Henri Boinnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: Pierre-Henri> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Pierre-Henri Boinnard wrote: ... >> But for now, since LyX support RCS, I *think* it is sufficient to >> only add relevant keyword in the document comments to catch rcs >> information du

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Pierre-Henri Boinnard
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Pierre-Henri Boinnard wrote: ... > But for now, since LyX support RCS, I *think* it is sufficient to only > add relevant keyword in the document comments to catch rcs information > during checkin. > > I'll have some testing and tell you about them. In fact, if we add a line

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Pierre-Henri" == Pierre-Henri Boinnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: Pierre-Henri> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: ... I Pierre-Henri> think it would ease and clarify the translation work if Pierre-Henri> a version stamp is included in each document. >> Pierre-Henri> What

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Pierre-Henri Boinnard
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: ... > Pierre-Henri> I think it would ease and clarify the translation work > Pierre-Henri> if a version stamp is included in each document. > > Pierre-Henri> What's your opinion ? > > Well, using the lyxdoc cvs repository, there are timestamps, ve

Re: Document versions.

1999-05-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Pierre-Henri" == Pierre-Henri Boinnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: Pierre-Henri> Hello, Pierre-Henri> I think it would ease and clarify the translation work Pierre-Henri> if a version stamp is included in each document. Pierre-Henri> What's your opinion ? Well, using the lyxdoc cvs

Document versions.

1999-05-17 Thread Pierre-Henri Boinnard
Hello, I think it would ease and clarify the translation work if a version stamp is included in each document. What's your opinion ? Regards. Pierre-Henri BOINNARD email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ph.boinnard/lyx/lyxfr.html