On Tue, 18 May 1999, Amir Karger wrote:
> (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. :)
Ok, I'll do an effort last time. (Excuse moi, Jean-Marc)
> 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.
Exact, it is much better. Maybe using $Revision$ keyword in place of
$Id$ that reads a little bit cryptic. Or $Id$ in a note, and
$Revision$ in a footnote ?
>
> 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.
$Date$ sounds good to me. It is interesting to have it in paralelle of
the last edition date.
>
> 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
>
>
>
Pierre-Henri BOINNARD
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