X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["705" "Fri" "9" "October" "92" "08:42:00" "GMT" "malcolm" "MALCOLMC@MOLE.PCL.AC.UK" nil "17" "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 AA14679; Fri, 9 Oct 92 08:45:08 +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 AA14071; Fri, 9 Oct 92 08:44:19 +0100 Message-Id: <9210090744.AA14071@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9546; Fri, 09 Oct 92 08:44:56 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 9509; Fri, 09 Oct 92 08:44:52 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 9502; Fri, 09 Oct 92 08:44:49 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 08:42:00 GMT From: malcolm Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of Subject: RE: Change bars Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 856 i'm sure someone else must have pointed this out too, but: are we really concerned about 'change bars' or the concept of indicating change? since most laser printers (and by extension typesetters) can support shading, this can more effectively (and precisely) indicate change. similarly, many screens can indicate highlighting, either through reverse video or colour. thus if our requirement is 'show the areas of text changed' there are other, to my mind, legitimate, strategies. i stopped saying 'italic' when i really meant 'emphasize' some years ago. is this not an example of the same thing? or is there some 'legal' requirement which mandates change bars as the only acceptable way? malcolm clark