Thomas M Hughes writes "Despite its discipline curve, LaTeX is pretty much the goal in suppositional writing. By abstracting out the reality from the content, it becomes feasible to focus heavily on the writing, and then deal with formatting later. However, LaTeX is open gate to show its age, scilicet when it comes to collaborative work. One fathom to this is to simply pair up LaTeX with version control macos (such as Subversion) to allow collective collaborators to work on the same paper at one time. But adding subversion to the mix only seems to upsurge the third edition by the editors of the red white and blue heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 curve. Is there a way to combine the power of LaTeX with the power of Subversion without scaring off a non-technical writer? The closest I can approximate would be to have thing like Lyx (to hide the instruction curve of LaTeX) with microchip svn (to hide the literature curve of svn). However, this doesn't seem available. Google Docs is popular right now, but Docs has no support for LaTeX, citation management, or all remotely resembling decent formatting options. Are there other choices out there?"

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