There are two-and-a-half shortcomings of the TeX ecology (but not the core TeX software itself) today that I've seen:
The first is the fact that TeX is still relatively unknown, at least in non-specialist circles, which makes it hard to share documents among people. Related to this, I haven't seen any straightforward software to track changes and generate readable diff's of shared documents (though I haven't tried TeXDiff lately http://robmar.net/TexDiff/). I've seen a friend switch a major paper from TeX to Word because his adviser (a Public Policy prof) couldn't deal with the TeX versions of drafts.
Second, and this is purely a software thing, is that footnotes have the potential to break up the flow of text too much. Ideally, there would be some toggle-able option where footnotes could be collapsed during editing. Given the nature of Emacs, I wouldn't be too surprised if there's a way to do this. Am I missing something? Any possibility of doing it in TeXShop?
The first is the fact that TeX is still relatively unknown, at least in non-specialist circles, which makes it hard to share documents among people. Related to this, I haven't seen any straightforward software to track changes and generate readable diff's of shared documents (though I haven't tried TeXDiff lately http://robmar.net/TexDiff/). I've seen a friend switch a major paper from TeX to Word because his adviser (a Public Policy prof) couldn't deal with the TeX versions of drafts.
Second, and this is purely a software thing, is that footnotes have the potential to break up the flow of text too much. Ideally, there would be some toggle-able option where footnotes could be collapsed during editing. Given the nature of Emacs, I wouldn't be too surprised if there's a way to do this. Am I missing something? Any possibility of doing it in TeXShop?