On: Draft. Version control for writing

[_ZeD_]

Have you tryed LyX?

from http://www.lyx.org/Features:

    Document management
        Change tracking
        Support for external version control systems (RCS, CVS, SVN)
        Comparison of different versions of the document
        Branches for having different versions of the same document
        Yellow sticky notes

[takluyver → _ZeD_]

I've tried LyX. It's not bad, but the killer is, as houshuang says, collaborating with other people. It's not simple or slick enough that I can ask my supervisor to set it up to add his comments on a paper. I sent him PDFs for a while, but when I couldn't get the Bibtex references formatted quite right, I gave up and used a word processor. I'd love to see something better in this space.

(I'm not the poster you replied to, I just have a similar view)