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Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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Post by JohnHammersley »

igravious wrote: post #27
JohnHammersley wrote: post #22

I'm curious as to the percentage of users here that use Markdown regularly? I'm one of the founders of Overleaf, and we've found that our users tend to either want to be able to edit in full LaTeX or want to avoid the need to code even in markdown (hence the reason we built a rich text layer for overleaf[1]) If you do use Markdown regularly, how often does it allow you to do everything you need (i.e. how often do you…

I taught myself LaTeX to be able to write academic papers. It was invaluable in teaching me about a large part of the document processing ecosystem I knew nothing about and made me appreciate that WYSIWYG was a step backwards to some degree. Strangely enough though for the current paper I have to write (> 20,000 but Pollen, which featured here recently, looks interesting too and I'm going to investigate that. Edit: I…

Firstly, thanks for helping spread the word about Overleaf, that's much appreciated! If you're still demoing with it, feel free to join our Advisors programme [1] (it comes with a free Pro+ account amongst other things!)

Be very interested to hear how you get on with your current paper -- it is one you're working on independently or do you have co-authors? If it's the latter, do you have a workflow for handling the collaboration?

Thanks also for the note about Pollen, will take a look at it in the morning!

[1] https://www.overleaf.com/advisors

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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Post by parpalak »

haddr wrote: post #3

I really like it! It seems lightweight, and editing is almost instant. What i'm not quite sure is what is the subset of available latex commands? Can you use only math formulas or there is also something else?

The most of "standard" latex features and some packages. You can find details here: https://tex.s2cms.com/

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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Post by itistoday2 »

geyang wrote: post #11

What about writing in a WYSIWYG, and get a LaTeX document and a markdown document? http://www.escherpad.com/signup

Please don't downvote comments like this. I found this to be a very helpful comment that contributed to the discussion, and found a neat editor in the process.

Thanks for sharing geyang, sorry for the downvoters, HN has a problem with downvoting (not the least of which is the inability to undo downvotes).

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

#34

Post by jedberg »

mhartl wrote: post #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.)

I just watched your video and I think your tool is exactly what I'm looking for! Downloading it now.

In the meantime, I was wondering if you ever compose on your iPad? What is your workflow for that?

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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Post by yellowapple »

TsiCClawOfLight wrote: post #13
hyperhopper wrote: post #8

I have the same setup in atom using Markdown Preview Plus ( https://atom.io/packages/markdown-preview-plus ) Works amazing and is offline, I highly recommend it.

Atom is too slow. I use sublime text with markdown preview.

I personally use Emacs with markdown-mode. I don't need the preview, really; the whole point of Markdown is to be readable in and of itself.

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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Post by igravious »

JohnHammersley wrote: post #31
igravious wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I taught myself LaTeX to be able to write academic papers. It was invaluable in teaching me about a large part of the document processing ecosystem I knew nothing about and made me appreciate that WYSIWYG was a step backwards to some degree. Strangely enough though for the current paper I have to write (> 20,000 but Pollen, which featured here recently, looks interesting too and I'm going to investigate that. Edit: I…

Firstly, thanks for helping spread the word about Overleaf, that's much appreciated! If you're still demoing with it, feel free to join our Advisors programme [1] (it comes with a free Pro+ account amongst other things!) Be very interested to hear how you get on with your current paper -- it is one you're working on independently or do you have co-authors? If it's the latter, do you have a workflow for handling the c…

I should be thanking you. The issue we have is that science-type students have no problem working with LaTeX. Our humanities students on the other hand will use MS Word which as we all know is completely suboptimal for creating long structured documents with lists of tables, figures, and so on.

We've found that by importing our university branded template into Overleaf and getting to our humanities students to think about their work as a structured document we can try to transition them away from MS Word. Unfortunately I think all bar two kept their old workflow.

Do check out the video by Pollen creator and typography nerd "(fourth RacketCon): Matthew Butterick — Like a Blind Squirrel in a Ferrari" linked from http://pollenpub.com/ His argument is that LaTeX has hindered innovation because it is so good. He gives his reasons for re-inventing the wheel with a Racket DSL. In the end we may realise the errors of our ways and come crawling back to LaTeX :)

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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Post by conductor »

parpalak wrote: post #32
haddr wrote: post #3

I really like it! It seems lightweight, and editing is almost instant. What i'm not quite sure is what is the subset of available latex commands? Can you use only math formulas or there is also something else?

The most of "standard" latex features and some packages. You can find details here: https://tex.s2cms.com/

Thanks Roman, this is very nicely done. I wonder what software are you running on the back-end that copes with HN's traffic so casually?

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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Post by omegote »

mhartl wrote: post #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.)

That's seriously cool.

Had I had something like that some years ago, my workflow for both my BSc and my MSc thesis would have been quite different.

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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Post by mhartl »

jedberg wrote: post #34
mhartl wrote: post #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.)

I just watched your video and I think your tool is exactly what I'm looking for! Downloading it now. In the meantime, I was wondering if you ever compose on your iPad? What is your workflow for that?

Using Softcover requires a standard shell & text editor, which I doubt is available on iPad. But it works great as a de facto second monitor, as described [here](http://manual.softcover.io/book/getting_started#sec-html_sof...).

Re: Markdown and LaTeX Editor

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Post by robbiep »

JohnHammersley wrote: post #28
robbiep wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a content platform (medical app) where our clients create or upload a significant percentage of the content. Although markdown has its limitations, as well as a barrier to entry for the non-technical user, it enables us to make sure our content is uniform in appearance with minimal style guides. A good markdown table editor would be a real winner, and some f the better open source editors don't have a consiste…

Yes, I can see where markdown is a good middle ground for that type of regular, consistent content. Out of curiosity, did you have to set up templates for the content to help the non-technical users, or was a markdown tutorial enough?

We provide them with a PDF introduction doc when we acquire new clients or they wish to have new authors added which has the essentials, explaining what it is and why. Our editor also has hyperlinks which insert tags for headings (two options), bold, lists and links etc. So far it's been well received, although we are continually looking to tweak
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