Michael wrote:
On 8/14/06, *TechTonics* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Michael wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am interested and looking for a way to add collaboration
functionalities
> into LyX.
>
If you open a lyx file under Document there is an option
called Change Tracking. I don't think it is yet perfected.
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New in Lyx1.4x
http://wiki.lyx.org/0.6.15/pmwiki.php/LyX/NewInLyX14#toc3
Change tracking
This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
changes. To freeze a document for change tracking, use the
Document?Change Tracking menu:
[[uploads:/NewInLyX14/change-tracking-menu.png
uploads:/NewInLyX14/small-change-tracking-menu.png]]
When enabled, any edits made to a document are tracked. Deleted text is
marked in red and struck through, whilst added text is marked in blue;
in addition a changebar is added to the margin. With the dvipost
software installed, such marks can even be exported to PostScript
and PDF.
[[uploads:/NewInLyX14/change-tracking.png
uploads:/NewInLyX14/small-change-tracking.png]]
Send a change-tracked document off for review to a colleague, and let
them make changes - when you receive it back, you can use the Merge
Changes dialog to review his changes.
[[uploads:/NewInLyX14/merge-changes.png
uploads:/NewInLyX14/small-merge-changes.png]]
Once all marked changes have been processed, change tracking can be
disabled again to allow normal editing.
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mot juste,
cyberdiction
Hi TechTonics,
The one feature that I've mentioned is the real time communication,
real-time math discussion, and real-time collaboration. I guess it is
not exist in the current version of LyX.
any more thoughts?
That is never going to exist as a feature of LyX since it is
much larger than LyX, one name might be video-conferencing. I
think a speaker-phone is just a little more easier than a mic.
I connected one California grandmother with her grandchildren
in Florida. They each had about a $50 Logitech QuickCam that
sat on top of their computers focused down toward the keyboard.
They used Skype for voice which was free at the time. The other
component was MS Chat where you can send files back and forth
to each other in a dedicated way. One can also type in the chat
bar and show a printed page to the video capture. There is also
remote control where one user can enter keystrokes from their
keyboard onto a distant application. This approach is usually
used by a tech troubleshooting on networked client computers.
Anyway, I think Voip/VPN technology swallows LyX; one could
use just about any unique quality document processor with it.
Bo mentioned the collaboration powers of Word. One can export
LyX to say thesis.tex, then run "htlatex thesis" and it will
produce high quality equation html. I'm goint to attach a bit
of a recent converted webpage with equations that Miktex 2.5
recently produced. The import of thesis.html into Word is
nearly perfect where collaboration could occur. I'm not so
sure about the reverse path of Word to .tex which LyX imports.
Another good collaborating tool is Adobe Writer Pro. After
exporting .lyx to pdf, Pro can open the file and enable
commenting, which can put notes on the page. There is an
elaborate set of underliners, highlighters, arrows etc.
But it is expensive, maybe your university has a copy.
grey-limned medium,
Stephen
