is there any consistent way to turn LaTeX into HTML?
It may not be quite what you want, but https://www.softcover.io/ is a platform which aims to let you write eBooks in Markdown/TeX and publish them to PDF/HTML and eBook formats.
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
#42James 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.
Really cool to see this! I'm sure the effort required to make it open source will pay off in fostering an active technical community. Given the target market I'm sure you have many highly skilled users who would love (at the very least) to fix their favorite bugs. On a related note, recently at http://paperpile.com/ we've been thinking about ways to help our users connect their reference manager with web-based writin…
We'd love to start pushing forward on some reference manager integrations, so a pull request would be amazing! It might be best to have a quick chat about how to implement this. My email should be in my profile.
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#43writeLatex.com offers a live preview and it's faster overall. I really hoped this would be a better alternative because I'm already a bit disappointed in writeLatex.com's performance. An online version of Latex sure beats the hell out of setting up a local installation though.
We'd love to hear any things you think we could improve. And of course a pull request would be amazing as well!
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#44James 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…
I've put this on our template todo list, thanks!
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#45Awsome!
I almost want to learn LaTex. Perhaps this is the push I need.
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#46It's really great to see perpetual interest in collaboration on LaTeX documents. I hope you have great success (not sure I have a use for it now but will keep you in mind if I ever do). I also expect to recommend it.
Unfortunately a lot of my own documents are really hard to handle with editors -- I tend to write very long documents split across multiple source documents in a tree for easy management. I wonder if there is room in an offering like this for something more like an online IDE rather than just a editor for a singular file.
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#47Kudos! Having your source available and ability to peek into it gives me more confidence in your service and I'd rather use that. Thank you for doing this.
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#48It's really great to see perpetual interest in collaboration on LaTeX documents. I hope you have great success (not sure I have a use for it now but will keep you in mind if I ever do). I also expect to recommend it. Unfortunately a lot of my own documents are really hard to handle with editors -- I tend to write very long documents split across multiple source documents in a tree for easy management. I wonder if the…
You can split your document into multiple files on ShareLaTeX too, just like you could on your own computer with LaTeX. There is still a lot that we'd like to add into our IDE, but providing an experience that compares with offline editing is an important priority for us.
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#49My 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 build our own auto-compilation feature.
Re: Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
#50I used ScribTex for my dissertation and have used ShareLaTeX for papers as well. Both were/are great services backed by a great team. Having experienced the pain in configuring and maintaining a local LaTeX installation in the past, it was a pleasure to have a web-based version that was backed by git.
I'm glad to read that the code behind ShareLaTeX is being released as open source!