Thanks, Jens, for your comment! I understand your point of view! My point is that Org mode is not ubiquitous and most people (esp. non-programmers) do not use emacs. But I do concur that Org mode is great for collaboration IF a team can agree to using it.
Thanks for your interesting references! I am glad to learn about "single source" and OER. Your OER material looks fascinating: I don't know that .org file can be rendered instantaneously as HTML on GitLab. ~ Feiming On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 2:39 AM Jens Lechtenboerger < lech...@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > On 2018-10-25, Feiming Chen wrote: > > > I gave a talk on emacs-org in a local workshop (Government Advances > > in Statistical Programming) in Washington D.C. yesterday. I'd like to > > share the slides and org source file with the community (see attached). > > Thanks for sharing! > > I wonder why you stress the following: > - Not good for collaborative use (unlike Microsoft Office). > - Good for private, non-collaborative use. > > My view is the opposite: Org mode is excellent for collaboration as > it is plain text, suitable for diff/merge in Git repositories. > Thanks to the separation of contents from style, > cross-organizational collaboration is possible, which I find *very* > hard with any office tool: Changing a document master leads to all > kinds of layout destruction. Switching to a different corporate > identity is just hard with what-you-see-is-what-you-get tools. > > In contrast, Org mode can be a basis for what is called Single > Sourcing [1] in the context of technical writing. > > You can see my approach towards Open Educational Resources with Org > mode at [2]. > > Best wishes > Jens > > [1] http://rockley.com/articles/Single_Sourcing_and_Technology.pdf > [2] https://gitlab.com/oer/OS >
