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Re: [O] Help with sharing emacs-org presentation


From: Jens Lechtenboerger
Subject: Re: [O] Help with sharing emacs-org presentation
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 07:39:04 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On 2018-10-25, Feiming Chen wrote:

> I gave a talk on emacs-org in a local workshop (Government Advances
> in Statistical Programming) in Washington D.C. yesterday.  I'd like to
> share the slides and org source file with the community (see attached).

Thanks for sharing!

I wonder why you stress the following:
- Not good for collaborative use (unlike Microsoft Office).
- Good for private, non-collaborative use.

My view is the opposite: Org mode is excellent for collaboration as
it is plain text, suitable for diff/merge in Git repositories.
Thanks to the separation of contents from style,
cross-organizational collaboration is possible, which I find *very*
hard with any office tool:  Changing a document master leads to all
kinds of layout destruction.  Switching to a different corporate
identity is just hard with what-you-see-is-what-you-get tools.

In contrast, Org mode can be a basis for what is called Single
Sourcing [1] in the context of technical writing.

You can see my approach towards Open Educational Resources with Org
mode at [2].

Best wishes
Jens

[1] http://rockley.com/articles/Single_Sourcing_and_Technology.pdf
[2] https://gitlab.com/oer/OS



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