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Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by stared »

beck5 wrote: post #39
stared wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's how I understood things. However, without possibility to invite collaborators (to ScribTeX), there is not much use for me. That said, I used it, liked it a lot, started paying for it... just to discover that I cannot use it (in terms of, well, collaboration) anymore (so I quit paying, but with a bitter "you should have warned me when I wanted to pay, not only in the Sign Up form"). Anyway, I'm looking forward to…

Sorry I don't fully understand, you can invite collaborators on sharelatex into the project via the project settings area. Free accounts are capped to having 1 collaborator (1 person + yourself). Please drop me an email henry.oswald at sharelatex.com

The comment was about ScribTeX, where I cannot invite others (unless they already have accounts) but still I can (or at least - could recently) upgrade to paying plan (without any warning that ScribTeX is no longer accepting new users).

ShareLaTeX - sure, I know and understand.

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by at12 »

beck5 wrote: post #4

Founder of http://www.ShareLaTeX.com here, the guys at writelatex have done a great job of making a new clear home page since last time they were on HackerNews ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385300 ) the example presentation and no sign in required is a really great touch as it helps quickly bring down the bar for those new to LaTeX. The online LaTeX editor is not an easy problem to solve, compiling massive p…

both WriteLatex and ScribTex use codemirror, and ShareLatex uses ace, which editor do you plan to use after merging?

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by mgualt »

This seems to work well -- I imagine I would use it if I were using a temporary computer, an ipad, or some such thing. What would be nice is if I could integrate it with dropbox or similar services, essentially use it to edit and compile files in my dropbox library. Also it would be good to use a standard editor with config files that could be saved to customize the environment.

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by StevenXC »

JohnHammersley wrote: post #31
StevenXC wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No sign-in is nice as an option, but the fact that you can't sign in is a negative for me - I'd like to be able to manage multiple documents and projects within an account like on ScribTeX. Oh, and ShareLaTeX looks really good; thanks for sharing! I'm going to try it out now.

And as if by magic - you can now sign up to manage your docs on writelatex.com :-)

Slick, thanks.

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by JohnHammersley »

mgualt wrote: post #43

This seems to work well -- I imagine I would use it if I were using a temporary computer, an ipad, or some such thing. What would be nice is if I could integrate it with dropbox or similar services, essentially use it to edit and compile files in my dropbox library. Also it would be good to use a standard editor with config files that could be saved to customize the environment.

Thanks for the comments - glad you liked it! We're working on the offline integration and user customisation features, they're in the pipeline.

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by mohamedmansour »

beck5 wrote: post #4

Founder of http://www.ShareLaTeX.com here, the guys at writelatex have done a great job of making a new clear home page since last time they were on HackerNews ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385300 ) the example presentation and no sign in required is a really great touch as it helps quickly bring down the bar for those new to LaTeX. The online LaTeX editor is not an easy problem to solve, compiling massive p…

Would be really nice if there was intellisense! Great project though!

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by Mizza »

beck5 wrote: post #4

Founder of http://www.ShareLaTeX.com here, the guys at writelatex have done a great job of making a new clear home page since last time they were on HackerNews ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385300 ) the example presentation and no sign in required is a really great touch as it helps quickly bring down the bar for those new to LaTeX. The online LaTeX editor is not an easy problem to solve, compiling massive p…

ShareLaTeX superfan here - glad to see you taking the new competition in stride! :)

Competition in a space is good for both of you - I can't imagine that many people will use offline LaTeX editors in the near future because of you guys.

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by fab13n »

Real-time rendering is done pretty fast and nicely by whizzytex (sudo apt-get install whizzytex), if you don't need the collaborative features and are comfortable with emacs.

This being said, doing it in a web client sounds like no small technical achievement!

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by JohnHammersley »

fab13n wrote: post #49

Real-time rendering is done pretty fast and nicely by whizzytex (sudo apt-get install whizzytex), if you don't need the collaborative features and are comfortable with emacs. This being said, doing it in a web client sounds like no small technical achievement!

Thanks - whizzytex is a good package for real-time rendering. What we're trying to do with writelatex.com is help users get into LaTeX by removing some of the traditional barriers (needing to install, compile, etc), plus making it easy for existing users to work on the go and from any comp.

Hope you like the site! :-)

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