Slightly OT: tracking using LaTeX

[Ed Hill]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 08:49 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> In my huge effort to move everyone away from anything remotely smelling
> Windoze-y, I am often told that some people prefer using horrible, awful Word
> (whether from the bloated Office or from Star Office) even when having to do
> complicated equations and mathematical formulae (over LaTeX) because it
> provides for tracking of changes to a document. I personally don't care about
> tracking, but I am perhaps not that old and wise. Well, anyway, does anyone
> know if there is a program which can track changes in a document in LaTeX? It
> can not be that different to set up, using a combination of diffs on the old
> and the new file, and then including it during the processing by striking out
> the old and retaining the new in a different color/type.


Hi "Globe Trotter",

LaTeX files are plain text files and readily lend themselves to storage
and tracking within a source management system such as CVS, Subversion,
etc.  Many individuals and development groups keep their LaTeX files
within CVS.

Ed

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