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

[Lee Sonko]

Sorry, you can't make hyperlinked text in etherpad :-(.  But you can in
Hackpad (https://hackpad.com), a fork of etherpad. That might be a solution
for you. Try it out.



On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Frantisek Apfelbeck <algoldor at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Thanks a lot! I'm glad to be clear on this point. We will go by the edit
> history as Liz is suggesting or we will have to come up with some other
> idea. I have had a look at the etherpad or rather other services of this
> type before, however I have had some issues with them (I think that I
> needed to copy a text which had links in it (you just clicked on the
> highlighted words and it opened the associated link) and they basically
> disappeared, it transfered just a text and I had to add the links all
> again). But I will have a look it could be just my mistake and in this case
> it would be not so important.
>
> Once more thanks,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck
>
> biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker
>
>
> http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org
>
>
> "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Ghandi
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Lee Sonko <lee at lee.org>
> *To:* Frantisek Apfelbeck <algoldor at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Noisebridge <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:17 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] google docs - specific colours for
> various authors, possible?
>
> 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<http://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
>
>
> "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Ghandi
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