> latex is not really designed for collaborative editing My personal experience is quite the opposite. In our research team, we collaborated on papers, proposa

> latex is not really designed for collaborative editing My personal experience is quite the opposite. In our research team, we collaborated on papers, proposals, theses and similar documents and we exclusively used Latex. Being a text based format, it lends itself well to version controlled (svn/git) repos. It was very easy to track changes and resolve conflicting edits. I don't think any binary format would have worked as well. > with people who don't know latex This is, however, painfully true. Newcomers had to learn Latex; but given the prevalence of it in the academia, I doubt it was a bad investment.