Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
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Re: Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
#2Neat editor, I've long felt there's room for a markdown editor geared to writing 'real' documents - been working with Atom which covers a lot of ground with the right plugin - I even wrote a plugin that does something similar to their inline math rendering: https://atom.io/packages/preview-inline
Re: Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
#3I've used a live-preview app (http://marked2app.com) for a few years that I've been happy with for smaller projects, but I really like how they've created a Scrivener-like IDE with integrated source code control.
Re: Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
#4Curious to try this as an alternative to Evernote. I'm not wholly dissatisfied with it, but I feel that I tend towards messiness with Evernote and find myself never bothering to delete anything. I also get frustrated with formatting, though I absolutely love their inline image markup functionality.
Re: Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
#5Neat editor, I've long felt there's room for a markdown editor geared to writing 'real' documents - been working with Atom which covers a lot of ground with the right plugin - I even wrote a plugin that does something similar to their inline math rendering: https://atom.io/packages/preview-inline
If you're on mac, I'd give ulysses a try – it's pay to play — but well executed.
Re: Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
#6You might also want to check out Overleaf[1] -- it offers a rich text (WYSIWYG) layer on top of a full LaTeX distribution, with an automatic preview of the compiled document alongside the source in the browser.
It's geared primarily towards research papers and associated material, but can be used for anything! One of the first projects (not by the founders) was a set of wedding invitations!
PS: In case you can't guess, I'm one of the founders, and any feedback is always appreciated, thanks.
Re: Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
#7I'm always wary of putting in-progress work on random third-party services.
LyX+Mendeley works pretty well for me...
Re: Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
#8You might also want to check out Overleaf[1] -- it offers a rich text (WYSIWYG) layer on top of a full LaTeX distribution, with an automatic preview of the compiled document alongside the source in the browser. It's geared primarily towards research papers and associated material, but can be used for anything! One of the first projects (not by the founders) was a set of wedding invitations! [1] https://www.overleaf.c…
You should run a more modern LaTeX engine, such as XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. I can’t type diacritical characters (ąęłóż) without going to the past and figuring out the necessary encoding things.
Re: Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
#9I'm working on a new book lately, and I've been trying to settle on the right workflow. I've been posting the chapters as blog entries, as I complete them, but editing in WordPress leaves a lot to be desired, and I don't really think HTML is the right authoritative source for a book. I wrote my first book, and a lot of old documentation in SGML DocBook, and then later converted it to XML DocBook...it had many benefits, and with a decent vim setup wasn't too hard to work with, and the output options were super flexible. Final format for publication was a Word doc with extensive templates provided by the publisher.
All of that was a long time ago, though, and there's a lot more flexibility in where a document can start and end up in various other formats. pandoc changes the rules entirely, and markdown seems the most "native" format for pandoc.
In short, I think I need to be working in Markdown. But, this doesn't look like the right tool for me, at all. A subscription service for a text editor just feels wonky. I don't really want anyone else in the workflow until I send it off to an editor or for print publication. And, the idea of paying for a text editor, especially one as limited as this one seems to be (though it has some neat tricks), when there are such good/flexible/powerful/free/open editors, seems bizarre.
I think I just need to find a good set of vim settings for markdown, or give Atom another try.
Re: Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
#10This is perhaps a general question about 3rd-party auth, but how am I supposed to trust an app like this when I click "log in with google/github/etc"? I'm simply shown a new pane within the same application that could easily be a phishing attack. There's no way to verify who the hell I'm sending my user/pass to.
Is there some way for native apps to launch my preferred default browser to do this task?
(Note: this is by no means an accusation towards OP; I just tend not to type my gmail password into random apps I downloaded from strangers on the internet).