On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:25:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > LATEX/LYX is used very often in science to write publications. Most of the > > time there is not only one author, but two or more. Has anyone thought > > about a possibility of real-time collaborative editing in LYX? This would > > be very useful. > > We haven't, really. It would be a pretty big feature to implement. > > We do have change-tracking in LyX 1.4, though - this at least lets more > than one person work on a document by sharing the file and managing any > changes made by colleagues.
Another (partial) solution is to use a multi-part document and let different authors work on different sections. You can improve the situation further by using version control (e.g. CVS) on the different parts. Each author would work with his own working copy of all parts, and when it's time to commit it's easy to see which parts he has changed. The author should primarly be changing the section(s) he's responsible for, but since the .lyx-files are pretty human-readable, it's not too difficult to see and fix other (minor) changes. Especially if you use something like tkdiff to show the differences side by side with colors) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
