Just wanted to remind myself that AbiWord now has / is getting a feature to keep track of revisions within the document.

Tomas Frydrych was originally going to call the feature "revisions" (or "revision marks") -- he may call it "track changes".

Here's a sample of the proposed markup within a document:

<[token, e.g., c] revision="-1;+2;-5;">some text</c>

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From http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0652.html -- revision marks:

<[token, e.g., c] revision="-1;+2;-5;">some text</c>

This would mean that this particular segment of text was marked for deleting in revision 1, put back in revision 2, untouched in revisions 3 and 4, and removed again in revision 5. This is how we would handle the display for a particular revision level cases:

case A: user chooses revision explicitly mentioned in the attribute a) revision 1: hide this segment of text b) revision 2: display this segment of text

case B: user chooses revision not mentioned in the attribute, e.g. revision 4 We find the highest revision id lower than the id requested, in this case 2, and use it instead; we display the text. If the smallest revision id found is > 2, we will use implicit revision 0, with a sign opposite of that of the smalles id we found (see an example below).

To answer David's concern about changing a single letter within a continuous <c> ... </> span: this does not pose a problem, since by changing the attributes of a single letter, the letter will automatically be enclosed in its own <c> </> container on export.

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