X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil] ["3143" "Thu" "8" "October" "92" "12:46:23" "BST" "Mike Piff" "M.Piff@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK" nil "76" "Re: Change bars" nil 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 AA12929; Thu, 8 Oct 92 12:58:00 +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 AA11186; Thu, 8 Oct 92 12:56:02 +0100 Message-Id: <9210081156.AA11186@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5071; Thu, 08 Oct 92 12:55:46 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 5059; Thu, 08 Oct 92 12:55:36 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 5057; Thu, 08 Oct 92 12:55:30 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 12:46:23 BST From: Mike Piff Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of Subject: Re: Change bars Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 853 > > > From: Bo Thide' > > Subject: Re: Change bars > > In-Reply-To: <9210080924.AA08121@irfu.irfu.se> > > from"vanroose@ESAT.KULEUVEN.AC.BE" at Oct 8, 92 10:26:39 a > > To: Multiple recipients of > > > > > > 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). > > > > But what is the UNIX equivalent of changing > > \def\R{{\bf R}} > > to > > \def\R{{\Bbb R}} > > in a style file? Does it put a change bar against the (non-existent) printout > of the change in the style file or against every \R in the script? > And which is preferable? > > Suppose you change an Example environment so that it is now always preceded > and followed by a horizontal line. Do you want change bars? > > What if you rewrite your document so that every occurrence of > {\bf vxxx} is replaced by \Vec{vxxx}, where you have > \def\Vec#1{{\bf #1}}. Do you want change bars? > > Mike Piff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Dr M J Piff %% JANET: %% Department of Pure Mathematics %% pm1mjp%hicks1.shef@sunc.shef.ac.uk %% University of Sheffield %% M.Piff@pa.shef.ac.uk %% Hicks Building %% %% Hounsfield Road %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% SHEFFIELD S3 7RH %% Telephone: SHEFFIELD (0742) 768555 %% England %% Ext. 4431 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%