Return-Path: owner-linux-activists@Niksula.hut.fi Return-Path: Received: from joker.cs.hut.fi by hydra.Helsinki.FI (4.1/SMI-4.1/36) id AA22653; Mon, 23 Nov 92 04:11:27 +0200 Received: from joker.cs.hut.fi by niksula.hut.fi id <61656-2>; Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:11:04 +0200 Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu ([128.113.100.7]) by niksula.hut.fi with SMTP id <61504-2>; Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:09:38 +0200 Received: from sub.aix.rpi.edu (aix.rpi.edu) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (4.1/SMHUB40); id AA18331; Sun, 22 Nov 92 21:09:45 EST for linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi From: Daniel Russell Received: by sub.aix.rpi.edu (5.61-AIX-1.2/RPI-ITS-SUB10-AIX); id AA101871; Sun, 22 Nov 92 21:09:42 -0500 for linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi Message-Id: <9211230209.AA101871@sub.aix.rpi.edu> Sender: owner-linux-activists@Niksula.hut.fi To: linux-activists@Niksula.hut.fi X-Note1: Remember to put 'X-Mn-Key: normal' to your mail body or header X-Mn-Key: DOC Subject: revision control between ASCII and typeset versions Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:09:14 +0200 Status: RO X-Status: Hello. Awfully quiet lately. Does anyone have any ideas about how to control revisions/updates when the _working_ copy (i.e. the one that the author has) is in ASCII and the _distribution_ copy is in LaTeX? Some ideas I have: 1) Re- LaTeX the document from the ASCII each time a new revision is due out to the masses Problem: too much redundant work 2) keep an ASCII copy of the current LaTeX copy do diffs between the old and new ASCII copies, and put the changes into the LaTeX copy by hand. Problem: it's possible the editor will miss out on information, or that diff will choke if the differences are big (I'm not that experienced with diff, does it work equally well with flowing paragraphs as it does with code?) Any improvements will be readily flamed, shot down and otherwise degraded (postfix-negate factorial) dan ===== Dan Russell russed@rpi.edu Linux Forever! I need a new .sig Send me ideas, please .