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["David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>]

Hi Joris et. al.,

As someone who has happily been using TeXmacs for years and recently
experienced a failed attempt to figure out who had changed what in a
.doc file, based on "compare documents" in OpenOffice (perhaps Word is
similar), let me just say

   ---> THANK YOU <---

for integrating with _either_ CVS or SVN rather than writing your own
change tracking system. (We're mostly switching from CVS to SVN, but I
can use CVS for my TeXmacs documents if I have to, though working with
both would of course be the coolest thing.) Anyway, I am _so_tired_ of
people re-inventing the wheel and producing something less functional.
Perhaps it's just my lack of experience with OOO and Word, but I would
rather do a cvs diff on the TeXmacs source and resolve changes by hand
than have to go through that again.

Sorry to rant --- I left it in for emphasis.

        Dave Wonnacott


   Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:19:35 +0100
   From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
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   On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:23:59PM +0100, Bas Spitters wrote:
   > When writing an article in latex I have used a version control system 
(cvs, 
   > svn) to work with co-authors. Does anyone have experience using a 
version 
   > control system with texmacs files in this way? Which version control 
system 
   > supports merging changes/resolving conflicts in texmacs files well?

   I still plan to provide a hack for TeXmacs so as to support CVS when I 
have time.

...

   Best wishes, Joris