Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> writes: > > Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> writes: > > > I think collaborators who have even a tiny familiarity with > > technological tools make the whole process much, much easier. > > Unfortunately I'm working with technophobes, the sort of people who > > call the browser "the internet", so I have almost no wiggle room at > > all... > > One of the annoying thing in collaboration is to use email that is why a > server client model is more convenient. > > Hm, my collaborator is neither technical skilled but willing to use the > command line, and he writes in latex anyway which requires some > understanding your folks seem not to have. > > Another option you could use is LyX (and therefore latex of some sort). > LyX has a tracker of changes similar to the one provided by OpenOffice > and friends. It also supports some version control system (forgot the > details). > > But then again that might all be too technical, shrug
I think I could easily convince people to use an online system, or one that works in Markdown (which would be nice). The killer is the history tracking: everyone's used to Track Changes, and it would take a real revolution to dislodge them from that. Even I, the supposedly technical one, screw up git regularly. E
