[External] Re: Opinions/Guidance on LaTeX collaboration (methods & tools)

[Urs Liska]

Am Donnerstag, den 02.07.2020, 12:49 -0400 schrieb Jerry:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 08:19:47 -0700, Paulo Ney de Souza stated:
> > When all you have is a hammer everything start looking like
> > a  nail.
> > 
> > PN
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 7:14 AM Philip Taylor
> > <P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > Fine, understood Thomas.  I did not think that it was likely to
> > > be
> > > directly relevant, but nonetheless thought it worth mentioning
> > > that
> > > Excel and TeX can work synergistically together.
> > > 
> > > *Philip Taylor*
> > > --------
> > > Beuthe, Thomas wrote:
> > > 
> > > UNRESTRICTED / ILLIMITÉE
> > > 
> > > An interesting suggestion, but in my case, the people writing the
> > > documents are all well versed in LaTeX. It’s only at the review
> > > stage where things start to get problematic. Although commenting
> > > on
> > > pdf files works, some prefer to be able to directly edit the
> > > original to add their corrections suggestions.
> > > 
> > > What you are describing here seems to be a good solution for the
> > > input stage of the document, but I’m looking to solve problems
> > > more
> > > at the output stage.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Good suggestion though! Thanks for sharing your experiences.
> > > 
> > > It’s great to see some of the innovative and creative approaches
> > > that have been taken with LaTeX!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Not a direct answer, Thomas, but a question/suggestion — might
> > > > your
> > > non-TeXxie collaborators feel more comfortable working in Excel ?
> > > If so, then >you might consider accepting Excel as input which
> > > can
> > > then be directly processed by TeX, as I did (for example) when
> > > producing the *Descriptive **>**Catalogue of Greek MSS in the
> > > Lambeth Palace Library*.  The entire process is described here
> > > <
> > > http://hellenic-institute.uk/research/LPL/Greek-MSS/Catalogue/Eutypon/e31-a02.pdf
> > > >
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> 
> Just adding my own 2¢ to this thread, but MS Word's 'track changes'
> function is one of the most powerful group editing functions
> available.
> I work in a municipality, and documents are being shuffled among
> numerous departments all the time. The ability to track changes and
> using or deleting any specific modification is of enormous value to
> us. I have yet to discover an easier, more functional method yet for
> groups of people to work independently on a project and combine the
> results into a finished product.

How do you handle the issue of people making changes to different
copies of a file?

Urs

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