On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> wrote:
> * chris.m.mal...@gmail.com <chris.m.mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm curious how you work on Org-mode papers for publication with > > collaborators? In particular, do all of your collaborators know and use > > Org-mode themselves? Our current method is just to use ordinary LaTeX > files > > in a CVS repository for collaboration. > > CVS is very ... old if not ancient. > > For collaboration with LaTeX documents I am using SVN[1] as a > centralized version control system (VCS) if my collaborators are not > tech savvy. There are lots of handy tools available like [2] that > made it possible to convince any ordinary user from using SVN. > > If I am working with tech savvy people, I tend to use git [3] > instead. It is a *decentralized* VCS with much more possibilities > and it is a bit harder to learn. But if you are familiar with git, > you get advantages from offline commits, partial commits, and very > good internal merging capabilities that solve most of the LaTeX > integration process automatically. > > 1. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Subversion_(software) > 2. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/TortoiseSVN > 3. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Git_(software) Just to add from the Linux side: http://www.rabbitvcs.org/ very similar to TortoiseSVN - also works for git. Rainer > > -- > Karl Voit > > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
