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The last paper I published (IEEE for SC12) was written almost exclusively through a private Github repo. We didn't even think about using anything else -- it ju
by fintler 13y ago
The last paper I published (IEEE for SC12) was written almost exclusively through a private Github repo. We didn't even think about using anything else -- it just worked. It helps that all of the authors were comfortable with TeX however.
- Fomite 13y agoYeah, GitHub for papers is really hampered in fields that don't regularly use TeX.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoIn work I accidentally discovered once that Microsoft Word (and Excel) supports three-way-merges natively, so there's at least that for non-TeX folks.
- Myrmornis 13y agoNow that MS Word uses zipped xml as their format you can make some progress by specifying a custom diff driver which pipes the plain text to stdout. https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattribut...
- eru 13y agoJust go with markdown?
- Fomite 13y agoAs much as I'd like to, I doubt my collaborators would go for it - I work with a lot of clinicians using ancient computers with a stable, predictable work pattern, and they are understandably content with that.
- hugofirth 13y agoPeople who don't use TeX for accessibility reasons might want to give it another look. The tooling has risen in quality and accessibility hugely of late. I use TexPad[1] - which I like enormously. Otherwise, as another commenter mentioned, there is always Markdown. Combined with MathJax[2] and custom style sheets you see many of the same benefits with greatly increased simplicity. A great desktop Markdown editor (if people don't like web based ones) is Mou[3]. Lastly - the advantage to using Markdown is that if you have to work with someone who does use TeX - something like pandoc[4] can be used to convert between formats fairly nicely. One thing I think is missing is a "Make" like program to dictate how to combine multiple Markdown or TeX documents into a single document, which folders to scan for references etc. I've seen a couple of home grown solutions - but nothing that really fit the bill. [1]: https://www.texpadapp.com/ https://www.texpadapp.com/ [2]: http://www.mathjax.org/ http://www.mathjax.org/ [3]: http://mouapp.com/ http://mouapp.com/ [4]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/