(By the way, Pierre-Henri, I bet Jean-Marc is subscribed to lyx-docs, so you
don't have to send everything to him twice, like he does to me all the
time. :)
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:54:25PM +0200, Pierre-Henri Boinnard wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> (about displaying version inside the document)
> > Maybe a note indicating which version was last translated.
> I haven't seen yet side effect of comments in LaTeX preamble, so
> given a line in the english version such as :
>
> %% $Id: test1.lyx,v 1.3 1999/05/18 15:07:13 phb Exp $
>
> copy pasted and edited to :
> %% english version : test1.lyx,v 1.3 1999/05/18 15:07:13 phb Exp $
> %% $Id$
>
> it allows to keep trace of both translation and original versions.
This is a really neat idea! But I don't see why you would want to put it in
the LaTeX preamble. It doesn't really belong there. A note inset is one
idea. In fact, this might be important enough to be put in a footnote. Where
would you put the inset or footnote? I would suggest either in the Date or
Title layouts.
Hm. While we're at it, why not put $Date$ into the Date layout? I would say
put $Author$ in the author layout, but that's actually a bad idea, since
someone might fix a typo & re-check something in & that doesn't make them
the author of the document.
I guess we could put instructions to do this in DocStyle. (It wouldn't hurt
the English versions to have $Id$ in them.)
> Another bonus should be to offer support for other versionning systems
> such as Clearcase, that is really good and widely used in commercial
> compagnies, or the poor system from miscrosoft I did not remember the
> name. It would be definitly a major enhancement in this way to have
> some entries in the LyX config file that allow users/system admins to
> define the shell commands to do checkin/checkout.
I'm pretty sure Lars built in hooks for various versioning systems to use.
But I think it will be up to someone who uses that system to add it to LyX,
in the open source tradition of doing things that you want done.
-Amir
