>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephen> I will add pdfview.cmd to the Wiki (from missing file post). Thanks. Fell free to change the wiki as you see fit. It is yours too, after all :) Stephen> I am quite pleased with the official native Windows port of Stephen> LyX. When I saw the screenshots of the change tracking Stephen> support (dvipost) I became worried that Windows might be left Stephen> behind in 1.4 and the screenshots look pretty good. We have made a big effort on windows now that we can distribute it legally (this is why ruurd's port was not distributed by us). Stephen> Acrobat Writer Pro allows the author to save a .pdf file so Stephen> that a colleague can add comments using only the free Acrobat Stephen> Reader. MS Word also has change tracking but but is expensive Stephen> like Pro. Perhaps I should only say they can add impermanent Stephen> text. I see what you mean. Stephen> I meant "collaborative' in the sense of more than one person Stephen> working together on a paper, for example, and I meant change Stephen> tracking with the means to make annotative comments. I Stephen> suppose change tracking has more consequences than this so Stephen> was not identifiable with what I wrote. Change tracking indeed goes farther. It would be imaginale to be able to save a LyX file in some locked-down mode where only inserting comments is possible. Stephen> Suppose there is a graduate student writing a thesis and who Stephen> is submitting his/her paper to 3 advisors for comment. Stephen> Perhaps the student doesn't want his content directly edited. With change tracking, he can review the changes and decide whether to keep them or not. Stephen> Maybe everyone involved doesn't have LyX or *TeX installed on Stephen> their machines, it could be just the file originator. This is the main problem of course. But then we go out of what LyX can do for you. Stephen> But lots of academic people have ghostscript, and if they Stephen> don't it is a much smaller install than *Tex. Like Christian said, acroread is a safer bet. Stephen> Maybe what I have in mind is restricted in comparison to Stephen> corporate document tracking with a lot of authors. Stephen> Collaborating to me means contributing in an effort but not Stephen> necessarily with the right to emend the original document, Stephen> but to add erasable advice within the doc. Yes, that's not really collaborative (since all the people are not equal in the effort), but this is needed. Stephen> I built the fl*ed.exe with plain ./configure using Stephen> Msys/Mingw. Fltk also is cross-platform and built with just Stephen> ./configure. The package I used which had a Makefile and some Stephen> odds and ends was 19k. The Makefile is cross-platform, OSX, Stephen> Linux and Windows XP. The .exe does not have full Stephen> functionality compared to Linux yet, such as Stephen> importing/exporting pdf and zoom. It also might die at this Stephen> stage. You may want to create a page about that on the wiki. Stephen> I do not have your expertise nor your knowledge of the future Stephen> of LyX. But we need input to know what this future can be. Stephen> So maybe concerning myself with Windows 1.4 Lyx change Stephen> tracking or a more limited annotative functionality was just Stephen> none of my business and also you may be aware of gaps in my Stephen> thinking. Of course it is your business! Re-reading my answer, I see that the tone could be seen as a bit aggressive. This was not the intent; my problem was that I did not understand the relation with LyX. It is much clearer now. JMarc
