From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Newell Subject: Re: Organizing and taming hectic Academia work (faculty viewpoint)? Tips or a good guides sought after :) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:49:06 -1000 Message-ID: <87616obey5.fsf@bobnewell.net> References: <7e093509.51e.14ddb300091.Coremail.chxp_moon@163.com> <161f0a5020b2f36c40a1e82a8af79089.squirrel@webmail.hafro.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60684) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4g04-0003ZV-CJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:49:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4fzz-0007kK-5t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:49:16 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com ([209.85.192.169]:35407) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4fzz-0007k9-0r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:49:11 -0400 Received: by pdbnf5 with SMTP id nf5so2636076pdb.2 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:49:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <161f0a5020b2f36c40a1e82a8af79089.squirrel@webmail.hafro.is> (Julian Burgos's message of "Wed, 10 Jun 2015 14:16:31 -0000") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode "Julian Burgos" writes: > b) I write the manuscript in org-mode. Then I send the org-mode file to > my coauthor. Because the org-mode file is just a text file, my coauthor > can use Word to edit it. I ask him/her *not* to use "track changes" and > to save the edited version also as a text file. Then, when I receive it I > use ediff in emacs to compare both documents and incorporate the edits I > want. Simple is best, and I wish I had thought of this simple idea before I took an 87,000 word novel that I wrote in org-mode, output as ODT, converted to DOCX, and then sent to an editor. I got back all the track changes stuff and even worse, margin notes, and punctuation (like quotes and ellipses) changed over to Word-ish characters. It wasn't utterly useless but it created a lot of extra work, which still isn't over. Next time I'll do as per above, tell her to just edit the thing directly, write her notes in-line, and keep it as pure ASCII. I really believe she thinks I was going to use Word to publish the novel. Failure to communicate on my part. I could say lack of judgment on her part but that's unfair; in her world, most everyone uses Word at some stage in the process. -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i * Sent via Ma Gnus 0.12-Emacs 24.3-Linux Mint 17 *