Re: A question for authors: Are there word doc formats that can be versioned (i.e. SVN) and worked on collaboratively?
"Shawn A. Van Ness" <[email protected]>
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If you're looking for an edit-merge-commit style of workflow.. Word 2007 has a "Combine Revisions from Multiple Authors" feature. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102341321033.aspx#Combining The UI to load the 2 docs into the compare/combine view is a little cumbersome... not sure if there's a cmd line way to bring up the 2 docs. -S On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Mark Levison <mark-r0EpITdELjZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm starting to work on a book writing project with at least one other > co-author. I'm hoping to find tools that are better than token passing - > i.e. emailing the files back and forth. > > I hoped .docx would be useful but there is so much binary gunk in there > that I can't read them and so can't read the differences. > > Any other approaches? > > Cheers > Mark > > >