Word (offline) has had a built-in diff feature for over 10 years, and offline versioning is most likely handled like this: work_document_24_Dec_2023_Changes_from_William_final2-Copy(1).docx
But most likely collaboration is now done via SharePoint and the cloud version where you can track changes live.
maybe I'm just doing it wrong, but having looked at these capabilities occasionally, they seem pretty weak.
- There's no equivalent of "git blame" that I can find to see who/when a particular line/paragraph/section changed.
- I can't see if there's a way to view my changes separate from other edits to the document, or isolate changes by single authors generally.
- "diffing" via the "compare documents" action seems to want to generate a new document with track-changes edits for changes from old/new, but mangles the histories to present all changes as by the invoker of the diff, at that time, which isn't all that useful.
It's definitely better than nothing at all, but a long way short of where I'd hoped we'd be regarding collaborative document authoring at this point.
Sharepoint is in-org, and lo and behold, that's not always, or not even usually how documents are formed.
Plus, Sharepoint still has no concept of concurrent editing, so you better hope that nobody works on the same document at the same time. Also, it doesn't track changes.
It is only better than a file on a Windows share by a hair. A very thin hair.
Word's diff is Not Great (tm), but yes, at least it's there. Have you tried using it with more than 1 other changeset?
Oh yes. For everyone who is collaboratively editing texts, track changes is a much used function. Also the diff to create so-called redline versions. And commenting.
Sharepoint also tracks all versions automatically which is quite handy.
Haven’t yet found anything resembling this in the LaTeX world. Does OpenOffice offer this?
I've not really seen much actually using it in the wild, but I came across
CriticMarkup[1] at some point in the past and had some idea of using it in some sort of copyediting workflows.
FirmwareBurner|2 years ago
But most likely collaboration is now done via SharePoint and the cloud version where you can track changes live.
shabble|2 years ago
- There's no equivalent of "git blame" that I can find to see who/when a particular line/paragraph/section changed.
- I can't see if there's a way to view my changes separate from other edits to the document, or isolate changes by single authors generally.
- "diffing" via the "compare documents" action seems to want to generate a new document with track-changes edits for changes from old/new, but mangles the histories to present all changes as by the invoker of the diff, at that time, which isn't all that useful.
It's definitely better than nothing at all, but a long way short of where I'd hoped we'd be regarding collaborative document authoring at this point.
brnt|2 years ago
Plus, Sharepoint still has no concept of concurrent editing, so you better hope that nobody works on the same document at the same time. Also, it doesn't track changes.
It is only better than a file on a Windows share by a hair. A very thin hair.
Word's diff is Not Great (tm), but yes, at least it's there. Have you tried using it with more than 1 other changeset?
szundi|2 years ago
ano-ther|2 years ago
Sharepoint also tracks all versions automatically which is quite handy.
Haven’t yet found anything resembling this in the LaTeX world. Does OpenOffice offer this?
shabble|2 years ago
[1] https://github.com/CriticMarkup/CriticMarkup-toolkit
sam_lowry_|2 years ago
git