Try collaborating using Google Documents. It works well as long as the number<br>of people involved is quite low.<br><br>Once you are done, export to .doc for the Windows guy/gal, and then .odf for <br>you and the other author. This is not a closed cloud, it is open.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, <a href="mailto:john@netdirect.ca">john@netdirect.ca</a> wrote:<br>
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> <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org</a> wrote on 01/11/2010 02:30:24 PM:<br>
> > From: "Robert P. J. Day" <<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>><br>
> ><br>
> > i just heard back and the other editor now admits that, yes, the<br>
> > changes are visible. i still have no idea what the problem is,<br>
> > since i don't run word and can't reproduce what he's seeing. but<br>
> > if he now suggests that things are good, i'll leave it at that.<br>
><br>
> I suspect you are editing open source related articles? Why not<br>
> suggest they use an Open Source tool, like Open Office?<br>
<br>
</div> i wish. the author is using OO, as am i, but all content has to go<br>
through the publisher's project editor, who uses word. he's<br>
responsible for numerous ongoing projects -- some OSS, some not -- and<br>
it's extremely unlikely he's going to change tools at this point.<br>
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