Bug or feature? [Change Tracking]

Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org
Sat May 9 05:05:07 UTC 2020


Am Freitag, den 08.05.2020, 17:14 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
> On 5/8/20 1:54 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> 
> > Before I file a ticket on this, I'd like to get a sense of whether
> > it
> > is in fact a bug v. intended behavior.
> > Consider a document with an activated branch containing text that
> > has
> > been edited, and with change tracking turned on. The user wants to
> > dissolve the branch but retain the content. If the user does this
> > with
> > change tracking turned on, the entire branch gets crossed out and
> > the
> > full contents gets reproduced, which is a bit clunky to put it
> > mildly.
> > If the user turns off change tracking before dissolving the branch
> > inset, the branch contents are retained but none of the change
> > information survives. In particular, if the user has replaced one
> > word
> > with another, both words will survive in the latter case.
> > I tripped over this recently. My preferred behavior would be that
> > (with tracking temporarily turned off) dissolving the inset would
> > preserve the contents including tracking info. Am I off base here?
> 
> 
> I would also think that is what should happen. A whole lot has been
> done
> 
> in master on change tracking by Jürgen, though, so this may be be
> fixed.

Yes: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10128

Jürgen
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