Can you recommend any tools or processes that are similar to MS Word track changes?
I am not looking to use a source control system (no svn or git), this is for working with non-programmers.
Do any of the widely-used latex frontends support tracking changes? Any web applications that do this?
The main features of track changes people like are
- See who changed what parts of the document
- Add side-comments (marginal comments) to a document which don't appear when printed
- Ability to accept or ignore someone elses' changes
Best Answer
I've personally used the
changes
package http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/changes/ to great effect, and if your collaborators are also users familiar with LaTeX, then it is simple to learn to use, though the markup may be a bit primitive. Also this doesn't satisfy part 3 of your question, since I don't know of any editors that incorporates this package.A quick google search also brought up
TrackChanges
: http://trackchanges.sourceforge.net/ which has similar syntax and also a GUI program to accept/reject changes. Though I have not use it myself, so cannot offer recommendations for or against it.