Timeline for Simplest way to jointly write a manuscript?
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| Apr 24, 2013 at 21:36 | answer | added | Irwin | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 6:39 | history | edited | Noble P. Abraham |
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| Apr 25, 2012 at 20:08 | comment | added | JeffE | @Suresh Aawwww. | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 17:47 | comment | added | Suresh | @JeffE I look forward to the day when manual token passing is viewed as an antique relic akin to etching on stones :) | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 20:10 | vote | accept | bobthejoe | ||
| Apr 24, 2012 at 20:08 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | @eykanal: Good point, although you still need to have made some arrangement for how to avoid (or handle) conflicting edits to the same section. | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 19:27 | comment | added | eykanal | @AnonymousMathematician - Having the technically incompetent one edit and the competent one do the merging can work just fine. | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 14:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/194790492465143808 | ||
| Apr 24, 2012 at 13:43 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | If you literally mean the simplest way (even slightly more so than JeffE's excellent comment), then you can't get any simpler than the naive approach: pass a single file back and forth by e-mail, with the recipient having total control until they e-mail it back. This is the only approach I know of that requires no technical proficiency or special software at all (beyond what is needed to write a single-authored paper), and that avoids any complications regarding multiple files, copying and pasting, or who exactly has permission to do what. This may be overkill, but sometimes it helps. | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 13:09 | comment | added | Nobody | You need to put one of the authors in charge. Otherwise the one who is not technically proficient would be the bottleneck. | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 12:38 | answer | added | eykanal | timeline score: 20 | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 10:50 | comment | added | Anthony Labarre | I use a SubVersioN repository service, many of them are available online for free (see e.g. xp-dev.com). | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 10:48 | answer | added | Piotr Migdal | timeline score: 40 | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 10:18 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | Look here: Simultaneous collaborative editing of a LaTeX file - tex.SE. | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 9:55 | comment | added | bobthejoe | I should add, my advisor is not technically proficient. Hence the emphasis on simplest | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 9:11 | answer | added | user102 | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 8:30 | comment | added | JeffE | You forgot one traditional approach: "I am releasing the token for Section 2; updated latex source is attached to this email. I now claim the token for Sections 3 and 4." | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 8:20 | history | asked | bobthejoe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |