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Re: Indicating Edits
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Indicating Edits
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 09:28:08 -0500
- References: <3A9FD05F.C245F58E@gis.umn.edu>
/ Jamie Smedsmo <jsmedsmo@gis.umn.edu> was heard to say:
| it and added text another color). Are there any tags in DocBook that indicate
| edits or
| lead to this type of formatting? What do other people do for editing?
DocBook provides a common attribute, RevisionFlag, for this purpose, but
maintaining it by hand (without good tools support) is tedious. Instead,
I make changes then use diffmk to build the diff'd version:
http://www.sun.com/xml/developers/diffmk/
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Nearly every complex solution to a
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | programming problem that I have
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | looked at carefully has turned out
| to be wrong.--Brent Welch