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Re: Real Time LaTeX Collaboration Online

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Post by jpallen »

SagelyGuru wrote: post #6

I would be interested to know the advantages of this compared to working on a file in a shared git or svn depository?

I'm one of the co-founders of ShareLaTeX, and there are two main reasons that we've found that people really like ShareLaTeX. The first has been mentioned - you don't need to set up a LaTeX repository yourself. Even more than that, you can work on LaTeX documents from anywhere. It tends to be hard to find LaTeX installed on a computer if you're on the move and not using your own machine.

The other advantage is the ease of collaboration. While there are plenty of people in the LaTeX world who know git, there are plenty that don't as well. ShareLaTeX gives everyone a point and click way to make sure they are in sync with their collaborators. That said, we're getting quite close to offering git access to the projects for people who want it.

Also, my apologies that we keep appearing on the front page (along with a few other similar sites). We're flattered that people keep submitting us though.

Re: Real Time LaTeX Collaboration Online

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Post by jpallen »

fekberg wrote: post #12

Can you track changes? If you can this would be Very helpful for authors like myself that use LaTeX to write books. Could just invite the proofers.

Yes, we have a feature called 'History' which you can access from the editor. It lets you see the changes that have been made to your project over time. It's a bit of minimum-viable-feature at the moment, but it's still quite useful, and we're always open to feedback on how to improve it for your needs.

Re: Real Time LaTeX Collaboration Online

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Post by cultureulterior »

beck5 wrote: post #10

Hey creator of ShareLaTeX here, we didn't post on here (again) but we have been releasing a lot of new stuff since the last time the site was on the home page about 1 year ago to the day. Split view, command auto complete, multiple compilers and history are all done. Spell check, git integration and dropbox sync are just around the corner. The main thing that has happend is merging with http://www.scribtex.com with b…

I've used sharelatex in the past, and it is really useful.

Re: Real Time LaTeX Collaboration Online

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Post by funsi »

jpallen wrote: post #13
fekberg wrote: post #12

Can you track changes? If you can this would be Very helpful for authors like myself that use LaTeX to write books. Could just invite the proofers.

Yes, we have a feature called 'History' which you can access from the editor. It lets you see the changes that have been made to your project over time. It's a bit of minimum-viable-feature at the moment, but it's still quite useful, and we're always open to feedback on how to improve it for your needs.

You should think of including support for latexdiff (http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff). People will love that I believe.

Re: Real Time LaTeX Collaboration Online

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Post by jpallen »

funsi wrote: post #15
jpallen wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we have a feature called 'History' which you can access from the editor. It lets you see the changes that have been made to your project over time. It's a bit of minimum-viable-feature at the moment, but it's still quite useful, and we're always open to feedback on how to improve it for your needs.

You should think of including support for latexdiff ( http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff ). People will love that I believe.

Yes, we'd love to do that. I coded up a prototype a while ago and found that latexdiff can quite easily get confused and produce LaTeX code that won't compile. I definitely plan to revisit this though and try to get something working.
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