Hi, Andreas, Yes, Andreas is more or less right - it is a feature of the application. Do you think it make sense to create a dependency in the file format between two tracked changes which is not needed?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
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From: "Andreas J. Guelzow" <>
To: <>
Date: 25.09.2012 17:11
Subject: Re: [office-collab] How do we count? - September 26, 2012 Sent by: <>
On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 08:31 -0600, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
> Hi, > >
> Operations are being added upon a stack/queue. Each operation is working
> in >
> relation to the document state at their time. Every operation is simply
> added >
> upon the stack, there is a basic time/stack depth relation. >
> I am not sure, if it needed that operations need to be on a stack/queue for
> an intrinsic change tracking. >
> My view is:
> In general two changes are independent unless the changes are touching the
> same content. Even if they are touching the same content they can be
> independent - e.g., formatting a text as bold and afterwards as underlined.
> I admit that certain changes are depending on each other, but this is not
> the general case from my point of view.
> I think it is an important feature of CT in an application that certain
> changes can be rejected/accepted independently. This feature is not really
> supported by bringing the changes into a strict order.
> I don't think that this is a feature of the file format. The file format needs an efficient way of storing a record of these changes. I don't think that whether individual changes can be accepted or rejected has nothing to do with that. Andreas
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Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA Concordia University College of Alberta [attachment "signature.asc" deleted by Oliver-Rainer Wittmann/Germany/IBM]
