ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)

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Post by frossie » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 1:51 AM UTC

ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)
scribtex.com

Re: ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)

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Post by frossie » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 1:52 AM UTC

(I submitted this)

I have zero connection with this site, except it made me very happy when I found about it today. I can't believe I haven't heard of this before (searchyc didn't turn anything up).

Granted you may not be as excited if you don't use LaTeX :-)

Re: ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)

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Post by hootx » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 2:33 AM UTC

I'm very surprised by the speed of compilation. Latexlab (another online latex editor) isn't nearly as fast. This is a neat tool!

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Post by riobard » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 2:45 AM UTC

Finally the pain of collaboration on LaTeX text due to installation differences will be gone! Kudos!

Re: ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)

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Post by CoffeeDregs » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 2:49 AM UTC

That's just really nice.

I used LaTeX for two theses and loved it. It was very freeing to just worry about content and not about layout. When I use Word, I constantly fiddle with styling and with Word's occasional bizarre behavior (delete a word and the next paragraph becomes bold... ?!). With LaTeX, I spent an hour up front defining styles and a few minutes toward the end adjusting styles, but otherwise just wrote content (in vim!). I don't think I really ever ran into "OMFG, what is it doing?!" situations.

Okay, so the perfect scenario goes: ScribTex does well; ScribTex gets bought by Google; Google Docs adds Tex documents!

Re: ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)

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Post by boundlessdreamz » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 3:36 AM UTC

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #5

That's just really nice. I used LaTeX for two theses and loved it. It was very freeing to just worry about content and not about layout. When I use Word, I constantly fiddle with styling and with Word's occasional bizarre behavior (delete a word and the next paragraph becomes bold... ?!). With LaTeX, I spent an hour up front defining styles and a few minutes toward the end adjusting styles, but otherwise just wrote c…

Google docs has a latex based equation editor

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-docs-has-equ...

Re: ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 3:50 AM UTC

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Re: ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 3:57 AM UTC

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #6

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #5

That's just really nice. I used LaTeX for two theses and loved it. It was very freeing to just worry about content and not about layout. When I use Word, I constantly fiddle with styling and with Word's occasional bizarre behavior (delete a word and the next paragraph becomes bold... ?!). With LaTeX, I spent an hour up front defining styles and a few minutes toward the end adjusting styles, but otherwise just wrote c…

Google docs has a latex based equation editor http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-docs-has-equ...

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Post by ziweb » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 4:04 AM UTC

I just tried a medium sized file. About 3 pages. It just says loading......

Re: ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)

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Post by doki_pen » Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 4:09 AM UTC

I wish I could up vote this more. I've tried LaTeX a few times and I think the reason I don't go back more often is because I have to install it and remember how to compile. This makes it much easier to get your feet wet.