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Re: [O] org-annotate/collaboration?
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: [O] org-annotate/collaboration? |
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Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:55:14 -0800 |
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Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Matt Price <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Does anyone use org-annotate actively? I'm wondering what your
> >> workflow is, how you incorporate comments, etc.
>
> > I wrote it, and I don't use it that much. I do use it for quick
> > notes-to-self when writing, but footnotes do the job just as well.
>
> >> I'm hoping to embark on a book project with a colleague. I would like
> >> to use org-mode if I can, but I need to get a sense of the
> >> collaboration workflow. When you work on projects together, do you use
> >> annotations? Or git pull requests? If the latter, od you use any
> >> filters, or any magit tricks, to approve or modify suggested changes
> >> chunk by chunk?
>
> > It's a huge problem, and one that org-annotate isn't going to solve. I
> > do a lot of manuscript editing, and passing files around, and have only
> > barely gotten some people to accept my "weird" workflow, which is to
> > send them a clean version of an edited file, and along with that an HTML
> > file containing htmlized word-diff output, where the insertions and
> > deletions are colorized. They make further edits on the clean copy, and
> > I do another go-around. It's a huge pain.
>
> I did (and still do) the same, using latex and latexdiff, but found out
> that a better solution is to use mercurial and bitbucket (I presume git
> should be fine as well), since one of my collaborators agree to use it
> as well. This is quite a relief to the former method relying on external
> tools and email.
>
> - Usually instead of comments I use issuesin bitbucket.
> - hg diff is not perfect but a good first approximation.
I think collaborators who have even a tiny familiarity with
technological tools make the whole process much, much easier.
Unfortunately I'm working with technophobes, the sort of people who call
the browser "the internet", so I have almost no wiggle room at all...
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Re: [O] org-annotate/collaboration?, Uwe Brauer, 2017/02/11
Re: [O] org-annotate/collaboration?, Eduardo Mercovich, 2017/02/17