Step 1: Hey, let's not use Microsoft and Google to collaborate remotely, let's use our university's #Nextcloud with #onlyoffice.
Step 2: Shit, that Onlyoffice is WYSIWYG, and those are a pain in the arse, even if they are Free Software. They force me to use a mouse and don't separate semantic structure from look & feel.
Step 3: Okay, never mind, use whatever you like. Just send me a PDF export of your part once you are finished, and I will glue it together with my #LaTeX slides with pdftk.
We can't use #Overleaf, as the other contributors don't speak LaTeX.
#Etherpad is less bloated, but they also don't support auto-formatting with Markdown or something similar, so I have to use a mouse to define the paragraph style (paragraph, heading 1, 2, etc.).
Editing plain text files locally and sync them with git is not an option.
Moodle has a Wiki option, but no two collaborators can edit a page at the same times. Oh, ☎️ the 1990's are calling. They want their software limitations back.
@zeitgenosse I saw an article recently which claimed that markdown/orgmode is hard to get to work with realtime collaborators. Don't know to what degree that might be true.
@linos I think that Discord (“all our content is belog to us!”) has a pretty good solution. You can type Markdown and it will convert to WYSIWYG in real time; but at the same time, you can also use buttons to achieve the same effects.
The bad news is that this would probably clash with both Gender*Sternchen and Gender_Gap.
So, I guess the “just you do you and send me a finished pdf and we'll glue it together” solution is the least painful for all parties involved.
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