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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

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Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.

In a real-time collaborative editor such as Google Docs, every keystroke typed into a document is immediately visible to the other collaborators. While this can be very convenient, such real-time (or synchronous ) collaboration is not always what users want. We interviewed eight people who regularly collaborate professionally on documents such as news articles, and several told us that they found real-time collaboration a stressful experience: they felt performative, self-conscious of others witnessing their messy work-in-progress, or irritated when a collaborator acted on suggestions before t

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