That is very cool! The work done can be exported as well or items from other works can be imported in. I also like the function that contributors can be highlighted in different colors which makes it easy to see who wrote what. I still like the comments feature on Google Docs though which makes it nice to keep the page clean and allow others to come in and make comments on the various areas of document. I understand how some people don't like the idea of using Google Docs for whatever reason but, as far as I know, The Document Foundation has not produced a full web based version of their Libre suite. Sharing documents does not require any passwords or account set up. As the instructions state, the collaboration design was set up particularly with the kinds of work we do as well as students or global operations. People are scattered all over the place and rather than email documents around, we can follow a link to a document to work on it together from anywhere. There are of course other programs just like the one you pointed out, we just need to find them and try them out then let everyone else know about them. https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2494822 On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:14 AM, DuBois, Scott L. <ranger@roguehorse.com> wrote:
That is very cool! The work done can be exported as well or items from other works can be imported in. I also like the function that contributors can be highlighted in different colors which makes it easy to see who wrote what.
I still like the comments feature on Google Docs though which makes it nice to keep the page clean and allow others to come in and make comments on the various areas of document. I understand how some people don't like the idea of using Google Docs for whatever reason but, as far as I know, The Document Foundation has not produced a full web based version of their Libre suite.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
On Friday 11 January 2013 12:07:20 DuBois, Scott L. wrote:
I have to say that I don't understand the opposition to using free collaborative tools that have the potential to make document sharing easy for everyone.
Neither do I - but luckily, there are better (open source!) replacements for Google Docs when it comes to pure writing: piratepad. I suggest to try to use that - it has an even lower barrier to use, never requires passwords etc.
The only downside is that it is decidedly not useable for long-term storage but that is not a huge deal for something like this.
Hugs, Jos
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