This is awesome! Great work. One must have for me is auto complete, I use LaTeXila and its hard to move away from auto complete. Spell checking would also be amazing, I have yet to find a good LaTeX IDE with spell check.
Online collaborative LaTeX editor
21–30 of 71 posts
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#22This is awesome! I'd also like to share one of my local Wisconsin startups tackling the same problem: http://spandex.io/
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#23The is also http://www.scribtex.com/ (unfortunately, going down, but was nice, also supporting Git access), https://www.sharelatex.com/ . And for short LaTeX text, there is http://mathb.in/ . Also, http://www.scigit.com/ looks promising (not working yet, though). See also: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27549/simultaneous-co...
ScribTeX is going down? What happened?
It's not going down, we've just started pointing new users at ShareLaTeX, since that's where our development efforts are focused. If you have an account with ScribTeX you'll still be able to use if for the foreseeable future.
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#24This is awesome! Great work. One must have for me is auto complete, I use LaTeXila and its hard to move away from auto complete. Spell checking would also be amazing, I have yet to find a good LaTeX IDE with spell check.
Thanks sonier :-) auto-complete is on our development list, I agree it makes things easier once you're used to it!
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#25This is awesome! Great work. One must have for me is auto complete, I use LaTeXila and its hard to move away from auto complete. Spell checking would also be amazing, I have yet to find a good LaTeX IDE with spell check.
I have been using Emacs for quite a while now. It offers (via AucTeX/RefTeX) a brilliant solution for bibtex files, references, writing LaTeX, autocompletion etc. And if you use it in conjunction with either ispell or flyspell (on-the-fly spell-checking), you basically can use both at the same time.[1] However, this might be daunting, especially when this means starting and dealing with Emacs for the first time.
[1]: It might however be necessary to redefine one of the shortcuts for either flyspell or autocompletion, since they both use the same keys by default.
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#26Founder here... Great to see this on HN! Feedback much appreciated. Happy to answer questions...
Have you considered the popular front-end languages like Markdown, org-mode or any of the plethora of formats that have translators to LaTeX?
Hi Beltiras,
Thanks for the question - we've focused initially on creating a low-barrier-to-entry front-end for LaTeX, but which still worked in the native language. Which way we go in future will depend on the feedback we get on writelatex!
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#27This is awesome! Great work. One must have for me is auto complete, I use LaTeXila and its hard to move away from auto complete. Spell checking would also be amazing, I have yet to find a good LaTeX IDE with spell check.
I have been using Emacs for quite a while now. It offers (via AucTeX/RefTeX) a brilliant solution for bibtex files, references, writing LaTeX, autocompletion etc. And if you use it in conjunction with either ispell or flyspell (on-the-fly spell-checking), you basically can use both at the same time.[1] However, this might be daunting, especially when this means starting and dealing with Emacs for the first time. [1]:…
I've always been a vim guy myself. I guess it might be time to learn Emacs and give this a try.
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been using Emacs for quite a while now. It offers (via AucTeX/RefTeX) a brilliant solution for bibtex files, references, writing LaTeX, autocompletion etc. And if you use it in conjunction with either ispell or flyspell (on-the-fly spell-checking), you basically can use both at the same time.[1] However, this might be daunting, especially when this means starting and dealing with Emacs for the first time. [1]:…
I've always been a vim guy myself. I guess it might be time to learn Emacs and give this a try.
I write latex in vim using latex-suite and I'm very happy with it. The vim spell checker also works well in latex files.
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
ScribTeX is going down? What happened?
It's not going down, we've just started pointing new users at ShareLaTeX, since that's where our development efforts are focused. If you have an account with ScribTeX you'll still be able to use if for the foreseeable future.
Ah, thanks. If that's where the development going, would you recommend moving existing projects there? I could do it by hand, but is there a way to use Git or some other automated process to transfer projects?
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#30Founder here... Just pushed an update so you an sign up and manage your docs. Enjoy!