[Corpora-List] workstation advice for corpus linguistics work

[Nitin Madnani]

Or you could use Google Docs which I have used successfully for collaborative paper writing many times if my collaborators aren't comfortable with LaTeX. 

- Nitin

On Jan 22, 2011, at 10:28 AM, "John F. Sowa" <sowa at bestweb.net> wrote:

> On 1/22/2011 5:21 AM, Alexander Yeh wrote:
>> I remember passing paper drafts back and forth with a co-author who used
>> OpenOffice (and myself using Word). After several iterations, the paper
>> draft became unopenable by Word, and we had to revert to an older version.
> 
> Those bloated office products accumulate a huge amount of garbage during
> the editing process.  Even when the visible text can be converted, the
> invisible garbage can create problems.
> 
> One solution I've found helpful is to open a new, completely empty
> document.  Then do a cut-and-paste of the entire previous document
> into the new one.  That process copies over the visible material,
> and leaves the invisible garbage behind.  (Check the before and
> after file sizes to see the difference.)
> 
> You can keep the old version in an archive, just in case.
> 
> John
> 
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