Roberto,
If you use dropbox, can't you just put ALL the files there and edit
from there?
I am using a Mac and I can open and save files from LyX on the dropbox
directories, including generating the PDF, so I am sure something
similar will work on Windoze.
I would them use Version Control and make sure your collaborators use
that when editing their files.
https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/VersionControlInstallationAndUsage
Now that you mention it, my mother, 23 years ago, at 64, never having
touched a computer before, figured out how to use UUPC and MicroEmacs
on DOS, so she could email me in Namibia :-)-O.
For full disclosure I must confess that I wrote her a wrapper script
(3000 lines BAT :-)-O), bought her the modem (1200/2400 baud and I
think at that stage still illegal in Germany) and set up her uucp
neighbor.
To ask for a rewrite because (presumably academic) collaborators, can't
handle a few clicks makes no sense to me.
"computer-unsavvy" is Latin for lazy, right?
el
On 2017-07-29 11:55 , Roberto wrote:
>
>>
>> Make is your friend.
>
> I collaborate on dropbox with make-unfriendly computer-unsavvy people,
> make is not an option - and this is not such an uncommon case I guess!
> Instead, an _editable_ file format that __guarantees__ you have all is
> needed to compile the file is a haven for data integrity.
>
> All the rest, I am sorry, is too geeky-pretensions-minded in my
> opinion. This kind of thinking in my opinion is ultimately the
> reason of the same attitude that causes some people never get over
> the learning curve of LaTeX. Do you want to collaborate with just
> computer skilled people? or you want to collaborate on writing just
> as effectively with just anybody? if you opt for the second, then LyX
> is a great solution, but the need to carry around figures is still
> a burden for some. Is this clear? (I said for some, maybe is not a
> problem for me, not a problem for you, but is a problem for the other
> half of the world! try to wear their shoes every now and then!)
>
> So, if you wanted to use make, then for most users you can as well
> suggest to use LaTeX on vi :) is as much difficulty (infinity!)! Going
> by this token one always ends up saying "my current implementation
> can do it, just do 1), 2). 3) n) steps, but what effort does it
> take? Before answering think about your grandma having to do it ...
