Several people have commented that it is often difficult to tell what
has changed from one version of the document to another. To help out
I have added macros (in http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~lederman/mpi2/mpi-macs.tex)
that can mark the text. They put a symbol in the left margin. The
beginning of a change is marked like:
--- | (date)and the end of a change like:
| (date)
---The macros have the following names. The future ones are for later meetings.:
For marking changes not associated with a meeting: \begchange \endchange
For marking changes for the June meeting draft \begchangejune \endchangejune
For marking changes for the July meeting draft \begchangejuly \endchangejuly
For marking changes for the September meeting draft \begchangesept \endchangesept
For marking changes for the October meeting draft \begchangeoct \endchangeoct
A sample usage for the next meeting would be:
\begchangejune This is new text for the June meeting \endchangejune
I note that the macros are not perfect. Here are a few annoyances I have seen in my testing:
- They fail if used in the middle of some other macros. For example, you can't mark part of a \funcdef. Just mark the whole thing.
- The marker can roll over to a new page if the change ends at the bottom of a page.
- The text marked in the middle of a paragraph can have the line moved closer to the next line. It is still readable.
Let me know if there are problems.
Steve