[vox-tech] collaborative writing with latex

[Dylan Beaudette]

Hi everyone,

A colleague and I were recently talking about adopting LATEX as the format for 
dissertations and publications and the like, but always came up against a 
problem: collaborative writting efforts.

While it is ok for me to write all of my stuff in LATEX, sharing an editable, 
electronic version becomes complicated when working with others who have no 
interest in using LATEX as well. This is probably why M$ word is so 
widespread in this dept. 

We came up with a couple possible solutions consisting of sending parts to be 
checked in RTF or text format, while keeping the original in LATEX. This of 
course is not always a very feasible option, as collaborators often want to 
see and work with the entire manuscript with figures. 

Does anyone know of any existing methods of doing one's writting in LATEX, 
with the option of making it available for edits to others not using LATEX? 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.


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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341