Change within a change?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

Just describing the behavior I observe in OpenOffice, it does not appear 
to capture a change within a change.

Thus:

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. 
(original)

Start change tracking:

Now is the time for all <del>good men</del><insert>bad people</insert> 
to come to the aid of their country. (first change)

Save text. Change tracking still on.

Now is the time for all <del>good men</del><insert>bad men</insert> to 
come to the aid of their country. (second change)

The <del> and <insert> elements are for explanatory purposes and have no 
relationship to any proposed ODF markup.

Note that when changes are accepted or rejected, the change from people 
-> men is not captured by the application and one assumes by the markup.

Is that correct? As a description of application behavior?

Second question: Is that as it should be?

Thinking that in legal documents, for instance, or legislative 
documents, I would want to have multiple layers of changes and the 
ability to accept/reject or even skip levels. (Although skipping levels 
might create other issues. User beware.)

There are some legislative editor proposals that may have useful 
information about change tracking. Will try to run those to ground.

Hope everyone is looking forward to a great weekend!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
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Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
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