I would be completely happy if only the postscript output was annotated. Dean
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Marc Slemko wrote: > Make a script, take the output of diff, find all the lines with '>'s in > front of them, then mark those with a changebar. The biggest trick is > that since the line breaks will be different, we need a way in the markup > to say "start left margin bar here" and "stop left margin bar here" that > aren't overly picky about where they go in relation to other things. > > I think you would have to do it at that level, since trying to do it in > the various forms of generated documents would be even more hassle. > > On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Brian Slesinsky wrote: > > > > > > One big feature I want are those handy bars down the left side of the page > > > beside lines which have been modified since the last revision. > > > > CVS already represents changes, so it seems like change bars could be > > generated using 'cvs diff' somehow. The main drawback would be that > > anyone who wanted to print change bars would have to have both versions in > > their CVS repository. > > > > Another way would be to include the previous version of the documentation > > in the distribution, and use 'diff'. > > > > The output from 'diff' isn't perfect but I don't think editing change bars > > by hand would be much fun. > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Brian Slesinsky www.wired.com/staff/bslesins > > > >
