[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dear Developers, > > 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. > > Greetings > Stefan > > Hi, I have all my LyX documents shared via SVN. We are also using it for concurrent editing. SVN merging tools are quite good in merging LyX files... The only trouble is when you get a conflict. Then you must do diff3 of the relevant files and you must be careful not to miss any lyx tag. However, LyX fileformat is pretty readable, so I have successfully resolved every conflict so far, without any loss of work. So, for me, the current capabilities of LyX are sufficient for collaborative writing, meaning update-and-commit cycles, not really character-by-character collaboration. I miss just one feature: checking for changes of the .lyx file by other applications. The trouble is that some people update their files on the hard drive, but keep their document open in LyX, which is then not reloaded. Next time they hit Save, they overwrite the file by an old version... Best, Vasek
