Re: Editorial questions

If I were to insert <ins> and <del> tags then these would have to be 
updated with each revision, which then messes up the GitHub diff (that 
some people like me will find useful). So I don't think there is a clear 
answer here that would make everyone happy.

Holger



On 7/10/15 4:05 AM, Arthur Ryman wrote:
> Arnaud,
>
> It is more work for the editor but less work for the reviewers. Since 
> there are more reviewers than editors, marking the revisions makes the 
> WG more efficient.
>
> -- Arthur
>
> On Jul 6, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@us.ibm.com 
> <mailto:lehors@us.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
>> Arthur,
>> although I understand the desire for this, unless there is a tool 
>> that can generate this automatically I don't think we can reasonably 
>> ask the edtior(s) to markup all the changes in such a way. This is 
>> just too much of a pain.
>> --
>> Arnaud  Le Hors - Senior Technical Staff Member, Open Web 
>> Technologies - IBM Software Group
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Arthur Ryman <arthur.ryman@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:arthur.ryman@gmail.com>>
>> To: Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com 
>> <mailto:holger@topquadrant.com>>
>> Cc: RDF Data Shapes Working Group <public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org 
>> <mailto:public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org>>
>> Date: 07/06/2015 01:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: Editorial questions
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Holger Knublauch 
>> <_holger@topquadrant.com_ <mailto:holger@topquadrant.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 2) Arthur, you stated you wanted change bars on the sides. Do you 
>> have an example of this (in HTML) and does anyone know how to do such 
>> thing in respec? Meanwhile I have added a link to the detailed 
>> version history in github to the "Revision History" section after the 
>> Abstract.
>>
>> Thanks for adding the Revision History section.
>>
>> HTML has tags <ins> and <del> to markup inserted and deleted text 
>> [1], e.g.
>> <p>My favorite color is <del>blue</del><ins>red</ins>!</p>
>>
>> I know't know what this looks like in respect, but we can modify the 
>> CSS to improve the appearance if necessary.
>>
>> The key thing is that we need a simple way to see the delta from 
>> version to version. Change bars in the margin would be fine, but as 
>> long as the inserted/modifed  and deleted text is clearly visible, 
>> then reviewers won't have to reread the entire spec.
>>
>> [1] _http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ins.asp_
>>
>> -- Arthur
>>

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