Re: [tlug] Poll: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

[Jens Oliver John <lists@example.com>]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 02:57:54PM +0800, Raymond Wan wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Travis Cardwell
> <travis.cardwell@example.com> wrote:
> > On 2014年05月17日 20:29, Raymond Wan wrote:
> >> I love LaTeX and try to do as much as I can with it.  But one thing
> >> that Microsoft Word does well that LaTeX does poorly is track changes.
> >>  Annotating a PDF file with Adobe is not quite the same...
> >
> > I did a review of an academic paper very recently, and it was done using
> > LaTeX.  The authors used a Git repository for collaboration and added me
> > as a contributor.  It worked *very* well!  With branches, pull requests,
> > and merges, I think that plain text provides much more powerful change
> > tracking than Microsoft Word! ;)
> 
> 
> By the way, are changes based on a line-by-line comparison?  I know of
> authors who prefer not to add line breaks at the end of a line (i.e.,
> at 70 or 80 columns).  That is, they prefer to let their editor break
> it for them and keep typing right to the end of the *paragraph*.
> That's all fine, but when doing a diff, a single letter change
> highlights the entire paragraph.  Something that Microsoft Word does
> better (IMHO).

Git supports line-diffs as well as word-diffs!