My english teacher wants to be able to see document history. He says that my process is more important than the product. Is there any way to do this in libreoffice or some other open source document editor?
My english teacher wants to be able to see document history. He says that my process is more important than the product. Is there any way to do this in libreoffice or some other open source document editor?
The way you normally do this for Word documents is Track Changes. Microsoft Word and Libre Office also have a built-in way to compare two documents, in case you didn’t have Track Changes enabled. I assume if they’re asking for document history, they want to see what changed when revising your draft, not in what order you pressed the keys. Although personally I tend to revise back the past part of the document as I’m writing instead of writing multiple drafts and this wouldn’t really work for me. I guess another option is just to use set a timer and save a new version every so often. Maybe there’s a trick you can do with scripting to make copies of your autosave file and then combine those into a format your teacher can understand.
Using Git is out of touch. It’s incredibly unlikely that a language teacher understands Git or cares to learn how to use Git.
It sounds like your teacher probably has a way they expect students to do this, probably Google Docs or Office 365. Both of these have web versions so you could use them even if you’re running Linux.