Beautiful! I would love to see the org file! How did emacs perform which
such huge file?

2015-09-20 3:06 GMT+02:00 Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org>:

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> > On 20-Sep-2015, at 4:20 am, Pascal Fleury <fleury@google.com> wrote:
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> > Great! Congrats!
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> > I was actually wondering: you are 3 authors. How did you collaborate, in
> practice ? There was a thread about using org for collaborative work, but
> it seemed to end in discussing other tools...
> > Was it plain git/emacs and the tools used usually for code management ?
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> Well, unfortunately, the other two authors are not familiar with emacs,
> org-mode, or LaTeX.
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> The parts they wrote were sent as MS-Word files. I converted them into
> Org-mode.
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> For the parts I wrote, I sent them PDFs. The first time, I also sent them
> a Word version. I offered them that they could comment in word (with track
> changes) and send me, or better still, work on hard copies and send me the
> scans. The PDFs were so far superior to those word files, that could not
> resist them :). So, their comments came as scans of the commented hard
> copies, and I incorporated them in. Once they were comfortable with this,
> in subsequent rounds, I had to send them only PDFs.
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> We followed the same process with the copy editors. The copy editors
> worked on hard copies, and I incorporated the comments. This actually had a
> huge advantage since, in the process of incorporating their edits, I went
> through every single change they wanted to make. I do not know if they had
> done this on their software, how I would have gone through every sentence
> to check if and what had been modified.
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> The publisher usually works with InDesign, but was willing to let me deal
> with production of the print-ready PDF if I could meet her specifications.
> Again, this meant additional work for me. But this was also far more
> efficient than converting everything into Word, and then letting her set it
> up on InDesign. Both these steps would have been far more laborious. For
> example, I doubt if InDesign can make an author index automatically from
> citations in the way biblatex does.
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> So, the barrier in our case was not to find the most appropriate
> version-control software. The problem was that the other two authors were
> completely unfamiliar with any of these tools. But, even with that, using
> Org-mode was so far superior to shifting to Word or anything of that kind.
> No question.
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>  Vikas
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