On 1/11/24 06:26, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
Am Donnerstag, dem 11.01.2024 um 09:03 +0000 schrieb markhsalmon:
it does have features that make it easier to use. The university made
its choice I suspect because of the way multiple authors can
collaborate
I agree with you that the collaboration features are a big point in
favour of Overleaf. The strong desire by many LaTeX-users (and LyX-
users?) for those collaboration features are expressed by Emiliano
Heyns, the developer of BetterBibTeX for Zotero, in an interview:
"What I’d love to see is an online (because who wants to have to
install stuff these days), real-time, multi-author editor, that would
have a neutered view for my WYSIWYG brethren, a markup view for me
(LaTeX or something else, as long as I get the stuff I care about), a
vim mode preferably but at least something that syncs to offline files
(don’t trust the cloud as the only place for your precious articles).
LyX would be halfway there if the file format wasn’t so strange, and
co-authoring (or even version management, really) is a non-starter."
https://www.fiduswriter.org/2017/01/15/emilano-heyns/
I am a WYMIWG brother and like LyX a lot for hiding code from me as
much as possible, but due to missing collaboration features I use it
private only and would not suggest it at work, despite many advantages
of LyX in features apart from collaboration.
I have used LyX for co-authored articles and have not had any problem
with it. I suppose that's because my co-author and I generally aren't
working on the same part of the paper at the same time, so you don't get
weird merge conflicts. Once the paper gets to a certain point, we use
change tracking, which helps a lot.
Emiliano's remark about version management, from 2017, seems out of
date. I use git with LyX all the time. It was extremely helpful when I
was making the final changes to a book recently. It allowed me to check
and make sure that the only changes I'd made were the ones I thought I'd
made. The real issue there, it seems to me, is that most such tools are
line based, so changing a single character here and there can lead to
the changes looking more significant than they are. But that's true with
LaTeX, too, to some extent. It's a bigger problem with LyX, because the
line breaks in the saved version of the file can be completely different
from that point on in the paragraph.
Riki
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