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diff --git a/paper/lua-filters/track-changes/README.md b/paper/lua-filters/track-changes/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..379b4ff --- /dev/null +++ b/paper/lua-filters/track-changes/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Tracks changes in LaTeX and HTML or removes them in other output formats + +The Pandoc Docx reader and writer supports track changes of MS Word +(command line parameter `--track-changes=accept|reject|all`). + +If `--track-changes=all` was used to read a docx file, track changes +and/or comments are included in the AST as spans and are written to any +other output formats than docx and clutters the output. + +This Lua filter addresses this problem by interpreting the parameter +`--track-changes` (pandoc version >= 2.1.1) or the metadata variable +`trackChanges: accept|reject|all` (set either in a YAML block or with +`-M`) and accepts/rejects changes and removes comments for all output +formats including docx. In case of `--track-changes=all` and for html +and latex, it converts track changings and comments to appropriate +commands (for LaTex provided by the [changes +package](https://ctan.org/pkg/changes)) and tries to mimic the +visualization as in MS Word. |