Why it is better than offline editor (like TeXnicCenter) and code repository (like Git)?
I prefer for 1gb+ of latex code to not touch my laptop if I can avoid it.
ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
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Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
#12Why it is better than offline editor (like TeXnicCenter) and code repository (like Git)?
Because then you don't have to deal with texlive/miktex dependencies
Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
#13Why it is better than offline editor (like TeXnicCenter) and code repository (like Git)?
Both sharelatex and overleaf support git. You can pull/push directly to their sites or pair them to a GitHub repo iirc.
It's significantly easier to do collaborative editing of latex files with such a web service. But even a single person might want to use them, because maintaining latex dependencies can be bothersome.
Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
#14Why it is better than offline editor (like TeXnicCenter) and code repository (like Git)?
One reason: Sharelatex has nice features for collaboration (such as editing suggestions, history, etc.).
This is pretty much it.
It can be a lift to get non-computer-savvy folks to use a highly-managed system like ShareLatex (which is a great system). But it would be impossible (not merely difficult) to do so if "just use git for collaboration" is your message!
If a lot of your documents are collaborative, this turns out to be a major factor. (For my personal work, I'm happy to use Emacs and TeXshop and keep all files resident on my laptop.)
Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
#15> Yes. Both Overleaf and ShareLaTeX are committed to ensuring that all of the open ShareLaTeX code base will remain open source and will continue to be actively developed. That's a fairly disengenous answer to the question. The code is AGPLv3+ licensed and they are not the sole copyright holder (it is true that that have a CLA[1] but from a quick reading the CLA says that they "agree to also license the Contribution…
Overleaf founder here: We’re going to make sure that there is still an open source version that you can download and run yourself. We’re still working out the details of how we’ll do that, but if that involves open sourcing parts of Overleaf, then that's what we'll do.
Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
#16Why it is better than offline editor (like TeXnicCenter) and code repository (like Git)?
Both sharelatex and overleaf support git. You can pull/push directly to their sites or pair them to a GitHub repo iirc. It's significantly easier to do collaborative editing of latex files with such a web service. But even a single person might want to use them, because maintaining latex dependencies can be bothersome.
This, the dependencies are annoying to deal with. With ShareLatex, it "just works"
Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
#17I'm somewhat bummed about this - I am a big fan of ShareLaTeX, and have been using it for quite some time. I absolutely love that the whole thing is built on an open-source engine (not just the latex part - you can self-host if you want). Overleaf has a lot of also-interesting features, and probably a more robust revenue stream, but it's always a bit of a bummer when the open-source player in the market gets bought out by the closed-source one.
Hopefully that last bit in the announcement remains true: "Both Overleaf and ShareLaTeX are committed to ensuring that all of the open ShareLaTeX code base will remain open source and will continue to be actively developed."
Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
#18Sharelatex changed my life in the world of LaTeX editors. With normal LaTeX I installed 10 GB of stuff, had no collaboration tools and no spellchecker, no good folder structure thing.
It's those small GUI aspects that really made me appreciate ShareLaTeX.
Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
#19> Yes. Both Overleaf and ShareLaTeX are committed to ensuring that all of the open ShareLaTeX code base will remain open source and will continue to be actively developed. That's a fairly disengenous answer to the question. The code is AGPLv3+ licensed and they are not the sole copyright holder (it is true that that have a CLA[1] but from a quick reading the CLA says that they "agree to also license the Contribution…
Overleaf founder here: We’re going to make sure that there is still an open source version that you can download and run yourself. We’re still working out the details of how we’ll do that, but if that involves open sourcing parts of Overleaf, then that's what we'll do.
OverLeaf user here. Thank you. It's awesome.
Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
#20> Yes. Both Overleaf and ShareLaTeX are committed to ensuring that all of the open ShareLaTeX code base will remain open source and will continue to be actively developed. That's a fairly disengenous answer to the question. The code is AGPLv3+ licensed and they are not the sole copyright holder (it is true that that have a CLA[1] but from a quick reading the CLA says that they "agree to also license the Contribution…
Overleaf founder here: We’re going to make sure that there is still an open source version that you can download and run yourself. We’re still working out the details of how we’ll do that, but if that involves open sourcing parts of Overleaf, then that's what we'll do.
That's a nice decision. Thanks for committing to it so quickly in public. Props.
Good luck with the product merge. Don't wreck it with complexity :)