[Noisebridge-discuss] google docs - specific colours for various authors, possible?

[Lee Sonko]

Colored author text would  be a simply wonderful feature. Unfortunately it
isn't an option. I saw something on a google forum recently saying how it
wasn't a feature. (and it kinda bugs me since Google Docs uses some
technology from Etherpad which DOES have that feature). Etherpad.com
doesn't exist any more but you might want to find another etherpad service
and play with that. Though Etherpad won't have all the text formatting
capabilities of Google Docs.

In related news, there is no way to see where a live edit is happening in
Google Docs or Etherpad. This is important (and annoying) when you are
trying to follow along as someone edits a document and their cursor
"disappears", actually they might be editing the document on the next
screen.



On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Frantisek Apfelbeck <algoldor at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi to all,
> I have one technical question. We are starting with several friends to
> work on a book about makgeolli (traditional Korean alcoholic rice beverage)
> using Google docs. If we have one shared file, is there an option to
> dedicate to each author a colour, like for example me green, "Dan blue?" I
> have found that we can put in comments in different colours and we can
> change the colour of the text, but the second has to be done word by word
> or imput by imput rather than just to log in and write immediatelly in
> green respectively blue.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome! If it is possible share a link where is it
> explained properly or describe! I have tried to find a proper description
> on line and failed.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck
>
> biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker
>
>
> http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org
>
>
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