P� 2005-05-27, skrev Dylan Beaudette: > Hi everyone, > > A colleague and I were recently talking about adopting LATEX as the format > for > dissertations and publications and the like, but always came up against a > problem: collaborative writting efforts. > > While it is ok for me to write all of my stuff in LATEX, sharing an editable, > electronic version becomes complicated when working with others who have no > interest in using LATEX as well. This is probably why M$ word is so > widespread in this dept. > > We came up with a couple possible solutions consisting of sending parts to be > checked in RTF or text format, while keeping the original in LATEX. This of > course is not always a very feasible option, as collaborators often want to > see and work with the entire manuscript with figures. > > Does anyone know of any existing methods of doing one's writting in LATEX, > with the option of making it available for edits to others not using LATEX?
Not really. Some people choose XML-based formats for this reason. For example, DocBook can be typeset using an XML-to-LaTeX toolchain and edited with some GUI tools. But I am not a fan of XML/SGML so I don't use any of this stuff. If you are interested in an XML approach I suggest Tbook (tbookdtd.sourceforge.net) instead of DocBook --- it is easier on the fingers than DocBook. In my opinion, a wiki is the best system for collaborative writing ever developed. Wiki markup might be tool limited for a scientific paper, though. There are some tools listed on freshmeat that convert wiki markup into DocBook. Sorry, I don't have a great answer. -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system usually rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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