Summary: | [wish] OpenOffice/MSOffice-like track changes as a collaborative editing support in Kile | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kile | Reporter: | Jiri Biba <mr.beeba> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Michel Ludwig <michel.ludwig> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | barbour |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Jiri Biba
2007-05-04 10:47:40 UTC
Collaborative editing support is definitely an interesting feature for Kile. But I'm not sure about what you mean by "projects"? Kile actually has support for projects... Michel *** Bug 144447 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Well, I am not at Kile at the moment to check that, but does Kile store the "project" information in the directory where the root of LaTeX documents is? Is not it storing into ~/.kile or somewhere into KDE user configuration? Perhaps I am incorrect, but I do not see any benefit if all the data were not stored in a project directory so that it could be commited to CVS as whole or zipped and transferred to another computer (e.g. when you need to take your work offline for a weekend on a notebook). Anyway, I can choose to create a new file (and the wizard lets me choose the type of document I am going to work on), but I am not aware of any explicit visibility of the fact I am currently working with a "project". All in all, this bug/wish is not primarily about projects. On account of the fixed line usage - good way to bypass the problem of merging, but basically it does not solve the problem when cooperating with someone who works e.g. on MS Windows in WinEdit. The idea was, that CVS mergers are not always capable of handling the new lines appropriatelly from the LaTeX point of view where wrapping by new lines in one paragraph does not affect the resulting composition. Should the collaborative support be based on CVS/SVN diff records and the merging was LaTeX-aware, it would not mind if your collaborators used other means than Kile. And that is what I would like :). Jiri Biba Tracking changes probably isn't possible to do within the latex format without wrting a new style, though somebody seems to have made a start (http://trackchanges.sourceforge.net/). You might be interested in the latexdiff package. This compares two document versions and outputs a nice latex version with coloured text and strikethroughs etc. Is uses diff so its algorithm is more intelligent than the change tracking in Word. Regarding collaborative editing, the following projects might be of interest: ikiwiki latexki http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Austin_J._Che/Extensions/LatexDoc A combination of all three would be ideal... |