Re: Organizing and taming hectic Academia work (faculty viewpoint)? Tips or a good guides sought after :)

[Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>]

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Hi list and John

Thank you all for all the great advice i will start incorporating them into
my daily workflow

John: org-ref looks great but is it also used for "managing" you
references? that is searching for entries, grouping by keys, exporting them
to html, adding etc. does it have a "table" view or other? if not what do
you use for managing your references?

best

Z

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>

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