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Comment ScribTeX (Score 1) 328

by crazyjimbo on Saturday March 14, 2009 @03:03PM (#27194513) Attached to: Collaborative Academic Writing Software?

It sounds like http://www.scribtex.com/ could be exactly what you are looking for. It's an online LaTeX editor that allows direct rendering to PDF along with most of LaTeX's other nice features. It allows for collaborative editing and it's pretty easy to share documents with other users. It's also revision controlled with the ability to revert to previous versions, although not quite as powerfully as svn or git, etc.

Submission + - Collaborative Academic Writing?

Submitted by Thomas M Hughes on Thursday March 12, 2009 @11:48PM

Thomas M Hughes writes: Despite its learning curve, LaTeX is pretty much the standard in academic writing. By abstracting out the substance from the content, it becomes possible to focus heavily on the writing, and then deal with formatting later. However, LaTeX is starting to show it's age, specifically when it comes to collaborative work. One solution to this is to simply pair up LaTeX with version control software (such as Subversion) to allow multiple collaborators to work on the same document at one time. But adding subversion to the mix only seems to increase the learning curve. Is there a way to combine the power of LaTeX with the power of Subversion without scaring off a non-technical writer? The closest I can approximate would be to have something like Lyx (to hide the learning curve of LaTeX) with integrated svn (to hide the learning curve of svn). However, this doesn't seem available. Google Docs is popular right now, but Docs has no support for LaTeX, citation management, or anything remotely resembling decent formatting options. Are there other choices out there?

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