Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs server

[Henri Lesourd]

Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:

> > At the time, it seemed to me that one would enclose different
> > language correspondents of one "unit" (e.g. one paragraph) in an
> > environment (e.g. \spanish) and then selectively make visible the
> > source and target language (english, spanish) for translation and only
> > the target language for reading.
>
>
> Just to explain myself more clearly: what I envisage is to interleave
> units in different languages:
>
> \english{this paragraph was written in english, the source language}
>
> \spanish{este párrafo está escrito en inglés, el idioma fuente}
>
> \german{dieser Absatz ist auf Englisch geschrieben}
>
> etc.
That's the right approach, in my opinion (or at least,
it is an approach which has been widely used already,
it is a robust one).

> There is of course one problem to this approach: locking. This is not
> bad if one of the languages being worked on is the source, though.

Structured, XML-diff & patching is another solution
for this, which completely avoids locking (but then
of course, you introduce the possibility of conflicts
when merging the diffs).