I think git is a good solution for this, especially since you just need the other person to edit a natural language, not the LaTeX. You can do your coding locally after pulling their updates.
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Is there a collaboration platform, now that Overleaf has become an exclusive walled-garden?
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Perhaps.
One thing I find irritating with git is how it handles blobs. The doc has lot of small graphical images which do not need version control, but they need to exist along side the controlled objects. I will have to put them under version control just to get them in the same area.
I might still try latex2rtf, if the collaborator terns out to be quite low tech. But I guess I should have low expectations of a 2 column doc coming out well.
I've never had to do a paper with lots of graphics like that, so yeah, that would be a weird one.