>> Maybe we should find a way to perfectly support content-only >> collaboration: >> >> Usually only one author governs the layout, so when you share your >> document with a co-author, you only want him or her to edit the content. >> Ideally: you save your document as plain text, your co-authors can open >> this plain text in their own editor, edit the text, give back another >> plain text file and you now want to merge this plain text file with your >> LyX file and accept/reject the changes. >> >> Vincent > > Yep, exactly that. I agree 100%. > Nikos I would also agree to 100% or more if it were not for real world experience of co-operation. Plain text is far from unproblematic. There is only a small fraction of people that can save something as plain text without having to call a friend. Then comes the interesting problem of opening a plain text file (created in unix) in windows.. ouch.. you need some structure (sections, title, etc.) to work. The fine tuning can be done later perhaps.
I managed this once with RTF but I hate to do that ever again.
