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[Craig Morehouse <address@hidden>]

address@hidden wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:50:56PM +0100, Parrenin Frédéric wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know the html is much less semantically rich than texmacs is.
> >
> > The problem is to give a document that other people can comment and
> > modify. With an html export, they can comment in the text and add/delete
> > parts of sentences. Then, I can add their modifications to my texmacs
> > file by copy/paste.
>
> Okay. I thought that you meant to import the HTML back to TeXmacs.
>
>
>
> > > If your co-author cannot use TeXmacs, I recommand you export to LaTeX.
> > > This converter is quite advanced. And if he is in scientific
> > > publishing he probably knows how to manage that.
> > It is not exactly true... In mathematics, ok. But in earth sciences, a
> > lot of people only know M$-Word...
>
> I think at the moment you should follow the suggestion of Yannick:
> export to LaTeX and then use a third party conversion tool to produce
> HTML.
>
> TeXmacs 1.1 will have a much better support for HTML, but that is
> still a long way off.
>
>  
>
> > A related question is : is there something in texmacs that allow for
> > showing modifications of different author of the same document ?
> > I mean, in M$-Word, you can "Show modification". The new text is in red,
> > and the text deleted in red and strikeouted.
> > It is a very useful feature in many domains.
> > If it is not present in texmacs, is it planned ?
>
> We already had this wish several times, that is indeed a very useful
> feature. Currently there is not automated way to do it. Well, one
> could always write some Scheme code to this effect... Using macros to
> tag and hilight the modifications is not difficult, the difficult part
> is handling the diffing logic. Since TeXmacs is tree-based, it has
> been told that xmldiff (a Python program) might come handy.
>
> That is indeed a planned feature. BTW, you could add it to the Bug
> Tracker on savannah.gnu.org in category Wishlist.


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