>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Owlett <[email protected]> writes:
Richard> Please note the _*FIRST WORD*_ of the subject line <GRIN> [Did Richard> a preliminary web search. Results indicated I was clueless ;] Richard> Background: Last week I was asked to be one of the proofreaders Richard> of a near final draft of a ~1300 word document. IOW the Richard> structure and desired content were firmly established. Although Richard> fluent in English, it is not the author's primary language. He Richard> had prepared the English text I (and others) were reviewing. Richard> Desired specifications: 1. It shall have exactly 2 panes. Richard> 2. Pane 1 shall: a. have a verbatim copy of the original text. Richard> b. assign immutable tags (visible or not) to beginning AND end Richard> of each paragraph. c. be intrinsically READ-ONLY. That Richard> implies that both text and tags are immutable from invocation Richard> to invocation. 3. Pane 2 shall: a. on initial invocation be a Richard> byte for byte duplicate [*INCLUDING* tags] of the original. Richard> b. as Pane 2 is edited maintain visual sync of initial Richard> paragraph start and ultimate edited paragraph extent. [Is that Richard> vague ;] Richard> Am I even "asking right questions"? Richard> TIA as "owl" *DUCKS* fer cover I have no idea if the thing you image exists, but I do know that a "track changes" feature is included in LibreOffice Writer (or whatever it's called). It's, afaik, the normal way you make comments/suggestions on other peoples' text. The other suggestion would be to render the document as plain text, and check individual changes into a git repository with explanatory commit messages, but that's unlikely to be immediately valuable to the recipient. -- Russell Senior [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
