Hi list and John Thank you all for all the great advice i will start incorporating them into my daily workflow
John: org-ref looks great but is it also used for "managing" you references? that is searching for entries, grouping by keys, exporting them to html, adding etc. does it have a "table" view or other? if not what do you use for managing your references? best Z On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Julian, > > On 2015-06-10 at 10:16, Julian Burgos <jul...@hafro.is> wrote: > > a) I first write in org-mode. Export to Word, either exporting first > > to ODT and then to Word, or to LaTex and then use pandoc to convert > > LaTex to Word. My coauthor can edit the document as he wishes, using > > the "Track changes" option. Then, I transcribe their edits back into > > the org-mode document. Advantage of this approach: your coauthor > > receives a clean word file, that could include figures, references, > > etc., and he/she uses the tools she likes to edit the file. > > Disadvantage: you have to manually incorporate the changes to the > > org-mode file each time there are edits. > > > > b) I write the manuscript in org-mode. Then I send the org-mode file > > to my coauthor. Because the org-mode file is just a text file, my > > coauthor can use Word to edit it. I ask him/her *not* to use "track > > changes" and to save the edited version also as a text file. Then, > > when I receive it I use ediff in emacs to compare both documents and > > incorporate the edits I want. Advantage of this approach: the merging > > of the documents is easy using ediff. Disadvantage: your coauthor has > > to edit a weird-looking document, with markup, code blocks, etc. > > It seems like with a bit of extra (scriptable?) work you could remove both > disadvantages. > > Why can't you use method (a) above, and then DOCX -> Org via pandoc (with > --accept-all option)? > > I know pandoc introduce some of its own changes to the Org syntax but not > the document itself. You can get around this. You can remove the > pandoc-generated changes automagically so that only co-author changes > appear in Org format, which you can then use with your (b) above and emacs > ediff. > > Original: Your Org source > A: Org -> DOCX for co-authors (using pandoc) > B: Org -> DOCX -> Org (using pandoc). > C: A -> Org (using pandoc and --accept-all-changes) > D: B-Original > > The difference between B and Original are pandoc-introduced changes that > you do not want. Ignore/remove these changes from C, call it D and then the > difference between D and the Original are your co-author comments. Now your > authors can edit DOCX with Track Changes and you can work on those edits > with Emacs ediff. > > -k. > >
