Some news... Very pleased to announce that today was just a normal day. I spent 20 minutes figuring out whether “latest_version.doc” or “latest_MS.doc” was the latest version, reset my online manuscript submission password, and googled “R stats chi test” for the umpteenth time
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Looks promising, have you tried this?
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Just a little bit and only on my own. I think it integrates OK with microsoft word and its apple counterpart. Not a well with the libre or openoffice version so you have to upload manually when you want to push but it can definitely help with some things.
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The pricing system isn’t very well suited to academia, in which you randomly work with different people on manuscripts. A cost per user system only works well for labs that don’t really collaborate and tend to have the same author lists. Still want to give it a shot
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I can't tell you how to deal with your coauthors, but a realistic solution both for git and for keeping backups easily regardless of version control is for all authors to convert to using plain text. But I am lucky all my coauthors use .tex — I have lost track of what I might do
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Could be tricky to convince some of my co-authors to do this... Of course I could do this myself but I have to weigh up the time taken vs. benefits. Will definitely do this for my next sole or double-author paper
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Understandable! I'm just lucky I managed to convince every PI I have ever worked with — but there are confounds here, e.g., modelling and PIs who deal with modelling (or are modellers) know (of) LaTeX('s huge benefits).
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Yeah there is field subfield confound there for sure.
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version control not the epithet
Still haven’t found a straightforward solution for using Git for papers with lots of co-authors who don’t use Git, however...