[Tfug] Collaborative editing environments?

Claude Rubinson cjr at grundrisse.org
Sun Mar 27 11:40:07 MST 2011


On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 06:58:47AM -0700, Zack Williams wrote:
> > Incidentally, and I don't know that this matters, but the target
> > format is actually RTF (rather than DOC, ODF, or even PDF).  The
> > reason being that RTF files can be written in such a way as to
> > including templating information for citations and bibliographies.
> 
> Force everyone to use text editors and markdown to create the
> document, then use Pandoc to generate the citations, TOC,
> bibliography, etc. : http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

Not feasible.  I can't really force anybody to use anything and my
colleagues (academics in the social sciences) need a GUI environment
in which they're already comfortable.  If they were willing and able
to use Pandoc, we'd already be writing everything in LaTeX.

C.




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