Text Formatting ⇒ VCS | version control with LaTeX

[mssandes]

Hi, I would like to know, if have how to make a control version for edition?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

Perhaps explain a bit, what do you actually mean.

Stefan

[mssandes]

I'm writing a report with a co worker, and I like to have the historic about corrections in the text, something like the equivalent function in MSWord. This is possible?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, that's possible. If you would have written "version control" I would have understood.

There are several version control systems (VCS), for example:

• Subversion aka SVN - good LaTeX support,
• Git - powerful, more than needed for LaTeX,
• Mercurial - perhaps with a nicer interface than Git,
• Bazaar - by Canonical, used in the Ubuntu Linux world.

For SVN there are LaTeX packages: svn-multi, svn, svninfo. The vc bundle is good for Subversion, Git and Bazaar.

I recommend to have a look at some PracTeX articles, though they are of 2007:

• Tools for Collaborative Writing of Scientific LaTeX Documents
• LaTeX and Subversion
• Version Control of LaTeX Documents with svn-multi

Stefan

[mssandes]

Thanks for your help!