X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1701" "Thu" "8" "October" "92" "10:26:39" "CET" "vanroose@ESAT.KULEUVEN.AC.BE" "vanroose@ESAT.KULEUVEN.AC.BE" nil "38" "Re: Change bars" "^Date:" nil nil "10"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA12541; Thu, 8 Oct 92 10:28:16 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA10685; Thu, 8 Oct 92 10:27:05 +0100 Message-Id: <9210080927.AA10685@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2784; Thu, 08 Oct 92 10:27:05 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2776; Thu, 08 Oct 92 10:27:03 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2773; Thu, 08 Oct 92 10:26:59 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 10:26:39 CET From: vanroose@ESAT.KULEUVEN.AC.BE Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of Subject: Re: Change bars Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 851 LeRoy Price writes: > ... Our only real problem with LaTeX has been the lack of "change bars"... > that indicate what text has been changed. Johannes Braams writes: > Have a look at the various style files, like changebar.sty ... An other approach to ``mark changed parts of a text'' could be the following: just change to an other FONT (e.g. sans serif (roman...) instead of serif (roman...)), or maybe to an other SIZE (e.g. double heigth characters, i.e. condensed & enlarged). I guess that this approach would serve the purpose of marking parts of a text at least as well as change bars do, even better I would think. And the implementation of a \begin{changes}..\end{changes} environment would be very easy (especially with the New Font Selection Scheme): \font\changefont=...... \def\changes{\changefont} \def\endchanges{} Of course, this would mean that people have to change their way of looking at the text: not searching for `vertical lines in the margin' but rather for `eye stiking fonts'. But isn't that more natural, at least if the \changefont is chosen appropriately? With the modern typesetting possibilities, why would we stick to the pencil-and-paper solutions? Peter Vanroose Electrotechnical Department, ESAT K.U. Leuven, Belgium. VANROOSE@esat.kuleuven.ac.be tel. +32 16 220931 ================== RFC 822 Headers ================== Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 10:24:24 +0100 Message-Id: <9210080924.AA24300@memlinck.esat.kuleuven.ac.be> Received: by memlinck.esat.kuleuven.ac.be Thu, 8 Oct 92 10:24:24 +0100