  Collaborative writing is essential for teams that create documents together.
Creating documents in large-scale collaborations is a challenging task that
requires an efficient workflow. The design of such a workflow has received
comparatively little attention. Conventional solutions such as working on a
single Microsoft Word document or a shared online document are still widely
used. In this paper, we propose a new workflow consisting of a combination of
the lightweight markup language AsciiDoc together with the state-of-the-art
version control system Git. The proposed process makes use of well-established
workflows in the field of software development that have grown over decades. We
present a detailed comparison of the proposed markup + Git workflow to Word and
Word for the Web as the most prominent examples for conventional approaches.We
argue that the proposed approach provides significant benefits regarding
scalability, flexibility, and structuring of most collaborative writing tasks,
both in academia and industry.
