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I can't even get coauthors to use LaTeX+git. Word+EndNote+Emails is far more popular, despite how terrible it makes collaboration.
by gbrown 8y ago
I can't even get coauthors to use LaTeX+git. Word+EndNote+Emails is far more popular, despite how terrible it makes collaboration.
- joppy 8y agoI think the exact tools used are irrelevant to the discussion. If this style of publishing + maintaining older papers became popular, hopefully some better tools would spring up. For what it's worth, I think tools like ShareLaTeX and the like are much more usable for tracking changes in documents and enabling collaboration, especially with coauthors with little programming experience.
- tomrod 8y agoLaTeX and git are great for people who have invested the time to learn it. Any platform that will be successful for research collaboration could include these, but has to make the entry costs absolutely nil.