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Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
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Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
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Great work, James. I think I'll fork this code and give it look-see. I manage the dissertation/thesis template for my department on github. The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates. The problem I've found with managing it this way is that I'll invariably get a slew of emails from s…
I've put this on our template todo list, thanks!
Awesome, I'll keep an eye out for it
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great work, James. I think I'll fork this code and give it look-see. I manage the dissertation/thesis template for my department on github. The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates. The problem I've found with managing it this way is that I'll invariably get a slew of emails from s…
I've put this on our template todo list, thanks!
Could you please add the Purdue thesis/dissertation template on that list?
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~mark/puthesis/
Thanks.
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#54James from ShareLaTeX here. I'm hanging around all day today ready for the barrage of pull requests that we're about to receive(!) so feel free to ask me any questions.
Great work, James. I think I'll fork this code and give it look-see. I manage the dissertation/thesis template for my department on github. The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates. The problem I've found with managing it this way is that I'll invariably get a slew of emails from s…
> The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates.
This was the unwritten ritual at my department when I was in graduate school too. But no one there really used VCS. Who knows how long that thing had been passed around and tweaked.
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#55Thank you so much! I wanted to use this initially but my advisor didn't agree with storing unpublished papers on another server than the localhost/our servers. As a result I was using flylatex[1] which is nice but not as mature as this. Now I can give this a try!
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#56James from ShareLaTeX here. I'm hanging around all day today ready for the barrage of pull requests that we're about to receive(!) so feel free to ask me any questions.
Thank you for a great product. We have been using it in my university to take collective notes during winter schools, it's been incredibly helpful! Basically, we are able to produce at the end of the conference a pdf with all the course notes, illustrations and links; it's like writing the book in real time.
Whoa hey! I've been looking for something like this! Do you have any examples online of your group-created notes?
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#57I'm a big fan of ShareLaTex, I'm always showing it to friends. It was very useful for me during my studies. I'm extremely happy knowing it is now under the GPL Affero license.
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#58I used your product to write my resume, and could finish it without having to learn latex top-to-bottom. Really an amazing product guys. Wish you all the best and hope you achieve great success!
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#59My wife started out with www.writelatex.com to write her dissertation. The auto-compilation really slows down once you get beyond 30 or so pages. Also they don't have Git integration either, which was a deal breaker for my wife. She's since moved to using RStudio locally + Git. She says, "If you have Git integration, the auto-compilation feature would get me back from RStudio." We've also thought about using Grunt to…
latexmk has an auto-compilation feature
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#60Thank you for open-sourcing this! At the moment I'm using sharelatex to keep a version of all my equations "alive" since every time someone tries to resave my word documents, the equations become rendered to images.
Unfortunately for me, Latex hasn't gained traction in our department. I think the main barriers to entry, for our lab at least, are:
1) Local installation is more difficult than installing Word. Sharelatex and other cloud-latex solutions solve this.
2) Word's comment and review tracking system is more intuitive. If you're reading a document electronically and want to insert a comment or make an edit in word, you just do it right there. With latex, you can use synclatex to go back and forth but this extra step is actually a non-insignificant barrier. Also, with latex, is there a way to make and see comments in the pdf/preview but have the comment also live somewhere in the source, AND have the comments be editable in both places? I suspect the answer is yes, but I just haven't found the right tool?
I haven't unlocked the "history" feature in sharelatex but does it come close to this?