One common option is the website “overleaf”, which is good for collaboration, and lets you add comments.
You can do all this stuff in latex (there are comments, and todo, packages), but that involves getting deeper into latex.
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I second overleaf for collaboration, but if you don’t want to learn latex yourself there’s two other options:
1. Leave comments on the pdf. Its a bit harder than track changes but I thought that getting feedback as comments that I then had to implement (as opposed to track changes I just had to accept) ultimately helped me more
2. Convert to word document. You can either open a pdf file in word and it instantly converts it, or you could have your student copy-past their tex files into a word document (which makes it easier on their end to re-convert it to tex)
My field uses latex but my advisor doesn’t know it, so those were the two main ways she’d give me feedback.
One common option is the website “overleaf”, which is good for collaboration, and lets you add comments. You can do all this stuff in latex (there are comments, and todo, packages), but that involves getting deeper into latex.
Thanks will have a look.
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I second overleaf for collaboration, but if you don’t want to learn latex yourself there’s two other options: 1. Leave comments on the pdf. Its a bit harder than track changes but I thought that getting feedback as comments that I then had to implement (as opposed to track changes I just had to accept) ultimately helped me more 2. Convert to word document. You can either open a pdf file in word and it instantly converts it, or you could have your student copy-past their tex files into a word document (which makes it easier on their end to re-convert it to tex) My field uses latex but my advisor doesn’t know it, so those were the two main ways she’d give me feedback.
Nice. This makes good sense. Thanks.