[TYPO3-dev] Finding Updates in Manuals

[Daniel Bruessler]

Hi Stefan,

I just saw that it's a built-in feature of OpenOffice!! Just click the 
menu "Bearbeiten/ Dokument vergleichen" (in english something like 
"Edit/ Diff Compare").

Also something else what we could use if we like: "Bearbeiten/ 
Änderungen aufzeichnen" (english "Edit / Track Changes")

By the way: Hit F1 when OpenOffice has loaded ... ;-)

Cheers!
Daniel


Stefan Geith schrieb:
> Hi Devs,
> 
> maybe some of you have the same problem with updated manuals:
> I get a new manual for an updated plugin (or eg. a new TSref) and want 
> to know, where I find the changes since the last version I know ...
> 
> So a question to the OpenOffice-Gurus:
> Is there a OpenOffice-Feature, that helps with this issue ?
> In OpenOffice, I find
>   - "Änderungen aufzeichnen" (= Record changes ?)
>   - "Versionsverwaltung" (= Versioning ?)
> Could this be an option to let users see the changes from version to 
> version in a doc/manual.sxw ?
> Or is this impossible in SXW-Format ?
> 
> If there is no solution with OpenOffice, is/could be there an offical 
> recommended way to mark/list changes in manuals ?
> 
> Maybe an Appendix 'Changes in Version XX' with a linked list to the 
> changes in the manual ? The section 'Changelog' mostly contains comments 
> about changes code yet, but not about changes in the manual :(
> 
> Maybe a column at the side of each page with Versionnumbers 'Implemented 
> in Version x.y'?
> 
> Especially for big manuals like TSref, CoreApi etc. it would be a 
> _great_ feature to find (or better highlight) the changes form e.g. 4.1. 
> to 4.2. ;)
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> -
> 
> Stefan
>