Bug or feature? [Change Tracking]

Paul A. Rubin parubin73 at gmail.com
Sat May 9 16:07:56 UTC 2020


On 5/9/20 1:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> 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
>
Great!

Paul

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