[OS X TeX] OT: But what suggestions do TeXShop users have for collaborative writing

[George Gratzer]

May I suggest that Acrobat has a first class document compare? I send  
my coathors the source and the marked up pdf.

GG

On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Here is a modified \footnote command for the annotations.
>
> \makeatletter
> \RequirePackage{color}
> \newcommand{\ann}[1]{\renewcommand{\@makefnmark}{\mbox{$^{\color 
> {red}{\@thefnmark}}$}}%
> \footnote {#1}}
> \makeatother
>
> \newcommand{\rmann}{\renewcommand{\ann}[1]{}}%removing the annotations
>
>
> Claus
>
> On Jun 15, 2006, at 16:14, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> Ross Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Hello John,
>>>
>>> On 14/06/2006, at 11:13 AM, John Vokey wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>   Sorry for the OT post, but I was asked today, so I thought I   
>>>> would seek further input from other TeXShop users.  When I  
>>>> write  with multiple authors who also use LaTeX, we simply swap  
>>>> the .tex  files back and forth, handling all changes and  
>>>> suggestions with in- line comments (i.e., nothing is ever  
>>>> deleted, just commented out).   That seems to work well.  For  
>>>> non-tex co-authors, I send compiled  pdfs with in-line \marginpar 
>>>> {} for comments and suggestions, but,  of course, their comments  
>>>> in return are just usually emailed text.   I suppose CVS would  
>>>> work as well, but seems like overkill.  Any  other suggestions,  
>>>> especially something more TeX-like?
>>>
>>>
>>> \usepackage{soul}  lets you do  Strike-Out and Under-Line .
>>> That's a way of marking changes in the LaTeX source, with
>>> a clear visual effect within the PDF.
>>>
>>> This could be mixed with different colours to provide a kind
>>> of version-tracking setting.
>>> When it comes to the final version, you would only need to
>>> redefine \so and \ul to gobble/place there arguments, according
>>> to whether they are meant to be discarded or included.
>>>
>>> For larger segments such as whole paragraphs, then you could
>>>      \usepackage{comment}
>>> and declare your own  \includecomment  and  \excludecomment
>>> markup environments.
>>
>> There is also the way to annotate temporarily in the margin (Ask  
>> Nelly, PracTeX Journal 2005-1):
>>
>>    \newcommand{\query}[1]{\marginpar{%
>>        \vskip-\baselineskip %raise the marginpar a bit
>>        \raggedright
>>        \footnotesize
>>        \color{red}
>>        \itshape
>>        \hrule\smallskip#1\par\smallskip\hrule}}
>>
>> It can be turned on/off by
>>    \newcommand{\removequeries}{\renewcommand{\query}[1]{}}
>>
>> An annotation is inserted in the margin as follows
>>
>>    \query{Here is a comment.}
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>>
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