Thanks Sam, That's good to know. But I think the point here is that if all other tools do collaboration, sooner or later LyX should offer something along the lines. Maybe builnding on top of mercurial vcs (good multiplatform support, python) and sites such as bitbucket would be a way to implement this.
Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Sam Liddicott <s...@liddicott.com> wrote: > On 12/04/10 21:28, Jose Quesada wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> New google docs interface, with wave backend. (collaboration trends). >> googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-google-docs.html >> >> Most people agree that collaboration tools in latex lag behing word/gdocs. >> LyX has track changes, but it's very hard to convince collaborators to use >> it. >> It'd be good to keep an eye on this. Office will come up with online >> versions for Office 2010. If every other tool has a cloud version, LyX >> will >> be perceived as old-style and it'd be even harder to convince >> collaborators >> > > Rich xml formats with overlapping features allow conversions to be done > with xslt. > > Perhaps google docs can be used as a collaboration back end, with xslt > conversion to lyx's new xml format locally. > > Sam >
