On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable solution for > collaborative text: have everyone use plain text and only futz with > formatting when you agree on a final version. It may not look pretty, but > it's efficient.
This does not work for math, references, citations and hence is not advisable for scientific papers. Also, the section structure might be more sensible to have early in the process. (Besides this, extracting the plain text (e.g. from a PDF) and (re)format is always possible as a fallback solution.) Günter
