From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: org-annotate/collaboration? Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:45:35 -0800 Message-ID: <87shneq56o.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87wpd02b3s.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87mvds1tzu.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87tw7xbkot.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87fujgcurz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36086) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceB8q-0006Oj-NA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:45:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceB8m-0008RE-KZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:45:52 -0500 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52590 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceB8m-0008Pm-Ce for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:45:48 -0500 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ceB8e-0002gT-4x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:45:40 +0100 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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Uwe Brauer writes: > > Uwe Brauer writes: > > > I think collaborators who have even a tiny familiarity with > > technological tools make the whole process much, much easier. > > Unfortunately I'm working with technophobes, the sort of people who > > call the browser "the internet", so I have almost no wiggle room at > > all... > > One of the annoying thing in collaboration is to use email that is why a > server client model is more convenient. > > Hm, my collaborator is neither technical skilled but willing to use the > command line, and he writes in latex anyway which requires some > understanding your folks seem not to have. > > Another option you could use is LyX (and therefore latex of some sort). > LyX has a tracker of changes similar to the one provided by OpenOffice > and friends. It also supports some version control system (forgot the > details). > > But then again that might all be too technical, shrug I think I could easily convince people to use an online system, or one that works in Markdown (which would be nice). The killer is the history tracking: everyone's used to Track Changes, and it would take a real revolution to dislodge them from that. Even I, the supposedly technical one, screw up git regularly. E