This is one of the main reasons why I believe that change tracking information has no place in a document format, but is better dealt with by a version control system.
— Dr Peter M. Kelly pmke...@apache.org PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > On 14 Jun 2015, at 3:38 am, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> > wrote: > > The PDF of the paper about RCT (Repaired Change-Tracking), "Tracked Changes: > Navigating the Document-Format Anti-Pattern," provides a pattern-like model > for the interoperability assurance for WYSIWYG document using standard > document-file formats. The author's final submission version is available > for download in the bibliographic entry at > <http://nfoworks.org/notes/2015/06/n150601.htm>. > > A key finding in this paper is that in the absence of a profiled envelope in > which there is interoperability assurance when interchanging documents using > a format such as ODF, there is no prospect for such interchange working > properly with change-tracking in the files. > > Conditions on which such an envelope can be established and change-tracking > accomplished in a dependable way are sketched. > > This is important to Corinthia with regard to profiling the interoperability > among processors of standard formats and also determining how to profile the > handling of those formats in an interoperable way, whether or not > change-tracking (the original stimulus for the work) is every accomplished > with Corinthia. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 10:50 > To: dev@corinthia.incubator.apache.org > Subject: DChanges 2014 Papers Available > > The final versions of papers on change-tracking from DChanges2014 have been > published. You can see the table of contents of the proceedings at > <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2723147> by selecting to see the "Table of > Contents." > > I will make author's versions of my two papers available for direct download > in a few days. You will notice from the abstracts (linked from > table-of-contents) that ODF change-tracking received a great deal of > attention. > > There has been conversation with Peter Kelly about how change tracking might > work in Corinthia. These papers are about the underlying formats. Corinthia > needs to be concerned, if at all, in terms of making tracked changes of > changes made to the HTML presentation view. > > - Dennis >
