About
What
A
ColDoc is a collaborative document.
Why
There are two main frameworks currently used to present information (in particular,
related to scientific fields).
- A document redacted with the standard LaTeX/PDF
toolbox. Pros: these documents are state-of-the-art quality.
Cons:
the final user has no way of interacting with a PDF document
(other than sending an e-mail to the original authors)
- The Web 2.0 way (think of:
Wikipedia,
Stack Exchange...).
Pros: in those frameworks, content is continuously developed and augmented by users.
Cons: the end result, though, is fragmented, and cannot (in general) be presented as an unified document.
A ColDoc tries to get the best of two publishing frameworks.
How
The
ColDoc project is still in its infancy; the source code is available for anyone to help.