Re: Software For Book Writing
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:44:01AM -0700, TW wrote:
>>> The book is free-as-in-beer. Sounds like he might not be expecting
>>> "patches".
>> Ha, ha! I do. I'm just not sure of how I'm going to go about this
>> project at this time.
>
> I think you can use a versioning system to merge latex files (since they
> are plain text) Editing a LaTex file is straight-forward for anybody
> with half a clue.
Well, it could still end up as a mess, if people either (arbitrarily)
change the line breaks or insert characters with different encodings
(outside of ascii / utf or whatever the document uses).
That's leading OT now, but I haven't seen someone editing utf-latex on
window$. (I don't use window$ myself, so I don't know if it is possible,
though).
> Doug.
Johannes
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