On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 21:20 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 01/05/2008, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is probably EndNote... > > Yes! That certainly rings a bell. > > > Biologists use a lot MS word for preparing manuscripts, in particular > > for the features that allow to put comments in bubbles displayed in the > > margin. Typically, the manuscript circulates among authors and each add > > modifications and comments, that are eventually stably integrated in the > > manuscript by the main writer. > > Interesting. I have been writing my thesis as a back-and-forth thing > between my advisor and me, and I print it out, he writes on the > margins, I retype things, and it goes back to him. The best > replacement to the bubble system I can think of is some source > management system, like git, hg, or svn. I'm not sure I'd be able to > easily sway my advisor to learn to use either one of those, though. > > Is there anything better in Debian? > > - Jordi G. H. Abiword and LyX have track changes, though I guess that's not the same as bubbles. LyX has marginal notes.
I just was collaborating on a document with MS Word and the main author asked people to stop using the bubbles because they were too hard to follow. We just put comments in the text [like this]. I don't follow how a version control system helps with the comments. Do you mean the comments associated with the commit? Those aren't associated with any particular spot in the text, so I think I'm missing something. If you mean using the version control system to identify changes, that sounds equivalent to track changes, or even to searching for some agreed on sequence (like "[") to identify changes. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
