Talk:LaTeX/Collaborative Writing of LaTeX Documents

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Hi, this is really a right use case for collaborative writing. However, now Subversion isn't the most innovative tool for this. I am currently holding an SVN repository for whole my scientific work (articles, PhD Thesis, F77 codes, calculation results, etc.) One major issue really annoying with SVN is the requirement to work online. You can't commit/diff/log/etc while being offline (unless you are taking your repository with you). This is not an issue in the next generation version control systems - distributed version control systems. As examples, see GIT, Bazaar. I think that it at least can be mentioned in this article.

We should mention latexdiff somewhere.

The recommendations for line-length seem conflicting and unjustified. Why would you want to have everyone breaking lines at 80 characters? Works best to have paragraphs as single lines, then the user's editor (whatever it is - vim/kile etc) can visually break the lines appropriately for display only.