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Date:      Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:07:38 -0600
From:      Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
To:        Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
Subject:   Re: Technological advantages over Linux
Message-ID:  <D640D439-5637-4121-8BEC-12F03B8D64EA@kicp.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20200216145147.2235135b70d9f45f6203af05@sohara.org>
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> On Feb 16, 2020, at 8:51 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> =
wrote:
>=20
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 07:38:23 -0500
> Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote:
>=20
>> Unfortunately, because so
>> much of my work has to be shared among several users, and LaTeX does
>> not offer a suitable way of having a multitude of users edit a =
document
>> for review, with each edit being kept isolated from the final
>> document
>=20
> 	LaTeX plus git plus GitHub/Lab achieves that result rather well.
>=20

We had locally  subversion + LaTeX. But commercial service overleaf.com =
which was mentioned on this thread beats it. Also, new generation of =
scientists are less keen about "programming style=E2=80=9D TeX =
(incidentally, TeX was created as programming language to program =
typesetting machines), and prefer GUI style everything, like kids =
playing cubes=E2=80=A6 Still, whatever helps them to be productive is =
the best tools to use.

Valeri

> --=20
> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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University of Chicago
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