On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Andreas Vox wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > 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. > > I thought about integrating change tracking with version control. > That way you could update from a cvs or WebDAV repository and any changes > by others would be marked in a way similar to current changetracking. > But that's still vaporware atm. > > Compared with Lars' solution it would be easier to implement, but it > isn't real time.
I think combining change tracking with version control is a *great* idea. That would have been enough for me in most situations when I was working on stuff with other people. In addition, wouldn't this be useful in slightly different situations compared to two people working on the same document in real-time? Maybe we should add these suggestions to bugzilla? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
