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[Andreas Guelzow]

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 -- Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA Concordia University College of Alberta Attachment: signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part