On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Charles de Miramon <[email protected]> wrote: > Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: > >> >> I hope LyX will soon have some new features that will ease this >> collaboration. As we won't be able to implement everything, it would be >> nice to know which feature would satisfy most users. >> > > Having just finished editing a book, I think there is two phases in > collaborative work 1) you divide the writing (you do chapter 1, I'll write > chapter 2) the multiple steps of editing and ironing the text between the > editor, the authors and the publisher > > For 1) Everybody can write in his favorite software and you can import the > doc file in LyX without much problems > > For 2) what would be needed is a good cross-platform customized pdf reader > with annotations possibilities and a way to link these annotations to the > lyx document. I have used for my project Foxit which is not free but works > with Wine on Linux. Foxit has a very bad interface. Sadly annotations > support in poppler is unfinished.
I agree with this option - is there a good one out which could be used? I know that Acrobat Reade can be used if pdf commenting is allowed, which can apparently only be enabled through AcrobatWrite. If there would be an alternative way of enabling the commenting in the document for AcrobatReader, that would be, in most cases, a usable solution. Rainer > > Cheers, > Charles > -- > http://www.kde-france.org > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Faculty of Science Natural Sciences Building Private Bag X1 University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa
