Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor

#1

Post by mcantelon » Fri, May 07, 2010, 12:12 AM UTC

Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor
code.google.com

Re: Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor

#2

Post by krschultz » Fri, May 07, 2010, 1:13 AM UTC

Excellent! I was just wishing someone made something like this the other day after feeling that using Latex on Windows 7 was a subpar experience to what I was used to on Ubuntu.

Re: Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor

#3

Post by abeppu » Fri, May 07, 2010, 1:19 AM UTC

I love this idea. But it looks like for the moment, their 'compile' feature (set to 'default compiler') on ec2 is overloaded.

Re: Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor

#4

Post by SandB0x » Fri, May 07, 2010, 1:23 AM UTC

Nice. I also recommend the Watexy bot for Google Wave if you want to try some form of collaborative mathematics.

Re: Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor

#5

Post by arebop » Fri, May 07, 2010, 1:27 AM UTC

SandB0x wrote: post #4

Nice. I also recommend the Watexy bot for Google Wave if you want to try some form of collaborative mathematics.

to try this add watexy@appspot.com to your wave.

Re: Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor

#6

Post by theboos » Fri, May 07, 2010, 1:35 AM UTC

Good idea! The preview pane only worked the second time I compiled though. Exporting to pdf gave me a broken link however.

Re: Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor

#7

Post by Hacktivist » Fri, May 07, 2010, 2:38 AM UTC

krschultz wrote: post #2

Excellent! I was just wishing someone made something like this the other day after feeling that using Latex on Windows 7 was a subpar experience to what I was used to on Ubuntu.

Can you expand on what you thought was subpar about using Latex on Windows 7? I use Latex almost exclusively and for such an obscure (compared to Office) document publishing system, Latex has some pretty amazing tools available for Windows.

If you go the full IDE path you have TeXnicCenter, WinEdt, and LEd.

If you go text editor path you have your favorite editor to write the source and latexmk to automatically build when the source file changes.

Combine your favorite way of writing with MiKTex for the core program and package management and you have a bulletproof way of using Latex in Windows.

Re: Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor

#8

Post by robryan » Fri, May 07, 2010, 4:16 AM UTC

Great idea, would be useful at uni for me because for some reason a lot of the time they have seemed to installed a latex specific editor, recommended latex, but not installed the compiler.

Re: Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor

#9

Post by nimrody » Fri, May 07, 2010, 5:47 AM UTC

I was kind of hoping for something along the lines of LyX. Where you always see and edit a rough approximation of the document (jsMath might be useful for math display).

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#10

Post by andresmh » Fri, May 07, 2010, 5:59 AM UTC

Awesome project. I wish had the real time collaboration like google docs though.