These slides are from an internal meeting at pharmb.io where we discussed ways to improve documentation of our internal computational research projects. The winning solutions turns out to be markdown files, versioned with git. The slides explains a little bit about why.
7. Feature comparison
Word files Google Docs Latex Markdown
Local Editing Yes No Yes Yes
On-line editing No Yes So so ... Yes
Git history Not really No Yes Yes
Conv to TeX So so ... So so ... Yes Yes
Fast to type Yes Yes No Yes