My question is similar to this one, but with (hopefully) a clearly defined use case: sharing and reviewing basic tech docs with a minimal, intuitive GUI.

I'm producing technical documents using MS Word. These docs need to be reviewed, commented and have minimal additions & changes to their content, e.g. text, headings, tables.

I want to both 1. Track the changes 2. Accept/reject per change

In between focussing on getting the content right, a lot of issues come up (too many to list) around formatting, versioning, application compatibility etc.

It would be great if I could sidestep these and just

1. maintain a single source in Markdown while
2. providing a WYSIWYG "user interface" that only allows minimal interactions, i.e.:
   • changing/adding/deleting text/numbers/tables
   • commenting particular areas of text

In order to allow "users" to do these things without being in the Markdown workflow behind the scences, ideally this would be a Web-based editor with change tracking that outputs [some flavour of] Markdown.

Anyone know of such a thing? Or something that fits my requirements [explicit or as yet unconscious ;) ] even better?

UPDATE:

pt. 1

This (hallo.js) is very close to what I'm talking about, I just need more headings (H3 etc.), commenting, visible change tracking, and simple tables in addition.

pt 2.

This (ice) is the sort of change tracking in mind.

posted about 8 years ago

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