Track Changes, what will you do?

[vinesy]

When I'm collaborating with others at work I use NeoOffice (for working with MS Office people) or Pages (for those a little more enlightened). Its all English language stuff anyway. Nobody I collaborate with uses Mellel.

What I use Mellel for is writing multlingual academic papers. If my supervisor need to make comments, he can do that on a PDF with preview.app

So from where I'm at there no rush to get track changes for Mellel. Better to focus on INDEXING, image captions and marginalia.

[Jake-1]

Track changes is considered an essential feature of a word processor by many. But it is not. It is fashionable, but not essential.

For me, it is essential, and becoming moreso all the time. I said in another post that, if Mellel had track changes, I would a) use it much more often and b) get the two major collaborators who need my work to buy Mellel, or I'd buy it for them. Issue a) is of much more use and interest to me.

[Ori Redler]

It seems that the voting points to two things: a) smoothness moving between rounds of changes is essential; and there are many who would use this in a non-co-operative environment (with themselves) if the feature is any good.

[ealvarez]

About track change, I cannot say that it would be uninteresting. However, the "collaborative" feature I'm missing is line numbering. It's essential for scientific publications. Also, it can be very useful for collaborative work.

In fact, about collaborative work, I think that more and more it will be done in the "clouds". Google already offers it with Google docs. Office is also going this way.