Still no "track changes" in Pages?

I'm seriously considering switching to Mac and would like to leave MS completely behind. So I'm doing my research on potential problems I will encounter.
As I understand it, "track changes" is not available in Pages. Is this correct? I really need this functionality for working with someone who translates my documents into another language.
Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions Ron
Pages 2 has a comment feature, allowing you to attach notes to text. Most home/educational/small office users (the target audience for Pages) probably doesn't need more than that.

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