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              from"vanroose@ESAT.KULEUVEN.AC.BE" at Oct 8, 92 10:26:39 am
Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 92 10:36:42 CET
From: Bo Thide' <bt@IRFU.SE>
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Subject:      Re: Change bars
Status: R


vanroose@ESAT.KULEUVEN.AC.BE writes:
>
> 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?
>


There should be an option where change bars are added automatically whenever
I make a new version of my .tex file.  Why sould I have to do something
manually?

In UNIX it can be done by using RCS and running rcsdiff (plus , possibly,
a small sed or awk script).

Bo
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