Re: online doc collaboration
Mark Bestley
> Just wondering what people are using for this nowadays.
>
> It's not for anything very complicated: just a text document that we
> want to kick around and be able to see, reasonably intuitvely (i.e. not
> diff output :), who's changed what.
>
> I know Google Docs is the obvious answer, and may well be what we end up
> with, but I'd be _very_ happy not to be entrusting the big G with even
> more bits of my life.
MS Word -- turn Track Revisions on. (I don't know if OpenOffice does
this) although opnly one person can edit at a time.
If you have a web host then you could set up a wiki.
--
Mark
Dr Geoff Hone
wrote:
>MS Word -- turn Track Revisions on. (I don't know if OpenOffice does
>this) although opnly one person can edit at a time.
I have done this sort of writing two different ways:
- Track Revisions (earlier Track Changes), which several of us found
to be a complete pain.
- Edit. Send it to the next person to edit. Send it to the next person
to edit, and so on.
I would always go for the second way! Even, as has been the case,
where another author has been in the same office. It seems to be OK
if you can discuss a change face-to-face. Apart from that the "read
the entire document as a stand-alone work" seems to be better.
* You always read the entire document as a complete work.
* You dont have to worry about changes in Font or Style
* It does not matter what computer is used.
* If one author destroys a sentence/paragraph that another was
particularly proud of, the change is seen in context of the complete
work.
One such paper (published in the Journal of Defence Science) had two
authors in England (across the corridor from each other) and one in
California. The author in CA used an Apple (standard for NASA-ARC)
and the two in UK used Windoze. Everyone used a different version of
Word.
Mark
(in article <1j9paue.xnkkvp1slenrfN%thn...@poboxmolar.com.invalid>):
> I only have OpenOffice, the other person only has MS Office. Probably a
> non-starter.
>
>> If you have a web host then you could set up a wiki.
>
> Yes, I'd do that but I think the (perceived) complexity would put off
> the other person involved.
>
> I was just hoping Google Docs wasn't the only game in town, but it looks
> like it may be.
>
> Oh well. I'll send them a DNA sample while I'm about it.
>
> Thanks though!
>
If you're going to go with the G, Googlewave?
Mark