On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 05:26 -0800, Hassan wrote:
> [Re-sent message with a more appropriate subject line]
> 
> Hi, I'm new to this forum, but have a question:
>  
> I am part of a development team in an IT project,and
> use OpenOffice writer to write technical report
> occasionally. 
>  
> In our reports, we would like to be able to see which
> lines in a modified open office document have been
> changed, by a vertical line on the left margin next to
> the line(s) that have been modified, but not the
> actual text that has been inserted/deleted - in other
> words, the final text for that line only.
> 
> Example: If I have the following lines in version 1 of
> my document:
> 
>   A is for apple
>   B is for banana
>   C is for carrot
>  
> I enable the change tracking feature in open office:
> edit->changes->record. I then change the word 'banana'
> to 'bingo' in the second line, by deleting the 'anana'
> bit and insert 'ingo'. I would like to see only the
> following:
>  
>   A is for apple
> | B is for bingo
>   C is for carrot
>  
> But if I select options->text document->changes from
> the open office menu option, and set every option to
> 'None' apart from 'lines changed' to 'left margin', I
> get
> 
>   A is for apple
> | B is for bingoanana
>   C is for carrot
> 
> And if I deselect the edit->changes->show option, I
> get the right text I wanted, but with no vertical bar
> in the left margin.
> 
> Such a feature is available in at least the competing
> applications of MS Word and Adobe Framemaker, and
> something we find very useful in our line of work.
>  
> Is there something we are doing wrong or is this a
> missing feature possibly?
> 

What is stopping you from creating documents of two columns?  One column
could contain | the other can contain whatever comments on the same
line.

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