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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Julian Burgos <julian@hafro.is>
Cc: Holger Wenzel <drholgerwenzel@gmail.com>,
	emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, windy <chxp_moon@163.com>,
	John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Organizing and taming hectic Academia work (faculty viewpoint)? Tips or a good guides sought after :)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:02:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2616t81o5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161f0a5020b2f36c40a1e82a8af79089.squirrel@webmail.hafro.is>

Hi Julian,

On 2015-06-10 at 10:16, Julian Burgos <julian@hafro.is> wrote:
> a) I first write in org-mode. Export to Word, either exporting first
> to ODT and then to Word, or to LaTex and then use pandoc to convert
> LaTex to Word. My coauthor can edit the document as he wishes, using
> the "Track changes" option. Then, I transcribe their edits back into
> the org-mode document. Advantage of this approach: your coauthor
> receives a clean word file, that could include figures, references,
> etc., and he/she uses the tools she likes to edit the file.
> Disadvantage: you have to manually incorporate the changes to the
> org-mode file each time there are edits.
>
> 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. Advantage of this approach: the merging
> of the documents is easy using ediff. Disadvantage: your coauthor has
> to edit a weird-looking document, with markup, code blocks, etc.

It seems like with a bit of extra (scriptable?) work you could remove both disadvantages.

Why can't you use method (a) above, and then DOCX -> Org via pandoc (with --accept-all option)?

I know pandoc introduce some of its own changes to the Org syntax but not the document itself. You can get around this. You can remove the pandoc-generated changes automagically so that only co-author changes appear in Org format, which you can then use with your (b) above and emacs ediff.

Original: Your Org source
A: Org -> DOCX for co-authors (using pandoc)
B: Org -> DOCX -> Org (using pandoc).
C: A -> Org (using pandoc and --accept-all-changes)
D: B-Original

The difference between B and Original are pandoc-introduced changes that you do not want. Ignore/remove these changes from C, call it D and then the difference between D and the Original are your co-author comments. Now your authors can edit DOCX with Track Changes and you can work on those edits with Emacs ediff.

  -k.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-12 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-08 16:39 Organizing and taming hectic Academia work (faculty viewpoint)? Tips or a good guides sought after :) Xebar Saram
2015-06-08 21:16 ` M
2015-06-09  5:13   ` Xebar Saram
2015-06-09  7:00     ` Holger Wenzel
2015-06-09 13:21       ` John Kitchin
2015-06-10  1:57         ` windy
2015-06-10 13:49           ` John Kitchin
2015-06-10 14:14             ` Ken Mankoff
2015-06-10 20:58               ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-06-11  5:30                 ` Rasmus
2015-06-11 14:56                 ` Phillip Lord
2015-06-11 17:02                   ` John Kitchin
2015-06-12 13:24                     ` Phillip Lord
2015-06-10 14:16             ` Julian Burgos
2015-06-11  2:07               ` windy
2015-06-11  5:38                 ` Rasmus
2015-06-11 12:19                   ` windy
2015-06-11 12:18                 ` Ken Mankoff
2015-06-11 12:54                   ` windy
2015-06-12 14:02               ` Ken Mankoff [this message]
2015-06-13 19:06                 ` Xebar Saram
2015-06-13 19:52                   ` John Kitchin
2015-06-15 17:33                 ` Julian Burgos
2015-06-16  1:49               ` Bob Newell
2015-06-16 23:15                 ` Alan L Tyree
2015-06-10 18:51           ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-09  9:49 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-08-26 14:17 ` Anders Johansson

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