Slightly OT: tracking using LaTeX

[Globe Trotter]

--- Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Hi Ed,

Thanks! How does one use CVS to track LaTeX file changes?

Best wishes!


		
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