How can I do “track changes” stuff without using Microsoft Word?
Thanks for your help, everyone. I thought that OpenOffice would be the best answer, but on installing version 2.0 it I discovered that it reliably crashes on opening the document I want to work on. NeoOffice/J will open the document, although it changes the fonts for some reason. But now I have at least discovered that, as I should have guessed, change-tracking doesn’t work in rtf documents. I think my solution will be to save a copy of the file in Word format, send it to the boss and hunt down the revisions in NeoOffice. I want to keep my versions of things in rtf though because Nisus is more pleasant to use and Endnote reads rtf nicely. My reasons for not using Word are partly financial, partly religious and partly because I hate it hate it hate it. OpenOffice seems to suffer from copying MS Office too slavishly. NeoOffice, for instance, installs with options like “change what I just typed without telling me” and “annoy me by guessing what I’m about to type all the time” switched on
