Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Gordon Cooper]

Hello Liviu,

 My use of Compare is fairly frequent.  Document is the User
Manual for an operating system which may be changed/updated
several times a year, then released in html and pdf.

Manual is written in Lyx. My task is producing the pdf and because
of aspect ratio differences between images in html on a screen
and in pdf for possible printing, we have a separate Lyx master
for pdf conversion.  Compare is used to update this master.

Compare is excellent for finding changes, including  minor
punctuation and in hyperlinks. Twice I have had the same
problem as Bert where the synchronisation between documents
is lost and Compare thinks that every character has changed.

Regards,
Gordon.

On 11/16/2015 08:35 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:


What was the interest for this particular Compare? Did you want to
see/edit changes within LyX, or simply to visualize differences
between files. If it is the latter, then one approach that could help
would be to use an intermediary file.

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Bert Lloyd]

Dear all,

Thanks for your comments. Just to follow up, as in Gordon's
experience, when the Compare process did conclude, the result was as
if every character had changed.

Unfortunately I can't share the document publicly.

Best,
BL