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Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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post #5

See also rMarkdown ( http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/ ) for Markdown supporting LaTeX (and bunch of other things) and its real-time editor editR ( https://github.com/swarm-lab/editR ). Or for a longer list/discussion: https://hackpad.com/New-scientific-markup-language-utAjFcYuv... (it includes https://stackedit.io/ ).

+1 for RMarkdown and editR. The best thing about RMarkdown is the ability to do calculations in R and use those variables within LaTeX. A simple example:

  ```{r}
  a = 3
  b = 6
  c = a / b
  ```

  Did you know that $\frac{`r a`}{`r b`} = `r c`$?
http://i.imgur.com/IpiqDEx.png

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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post #17

Very curious as to why this so much more responsive than overleaf and sharelatex. Anyone?

I'd guess that the rendering is done client side here and can be done with partial updates. ShareLaTeX and Overleaf have to do a full LaTeX pass on the server just to show the change of a small part of the document.

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

#19
Softcover handles Markdown + embedded LaTeX on your local machine (no 'net connection required) using a standard text editor and web browser:

http://softcover.io/

I use Softcover to write and maintain both the code-heavy Ruby on Rails Tutorial (http://railstutorial.org/book) and the math-heavy Tau Manifesto (http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto). (Disclosure: I'm also the principal author of Softcover.)

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