Thanks to all for the feedback - massive spike in traffic, and over 100 users signed up in the couple of hours since we pushed the site update :-)
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Online collaborative LaTeX editor
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Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
This would be really easy to implement using pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/), which converts Markdown with extensions and LaTeX formulas into LaTeX. I think it supports Org-mode too.
Markdown would be excellent for sharing short notes and ideas among mathematicians, as opposed to full-blown papers.
Also, great job! I like how simple and efficient the interface is.
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
This would be really easy to implement using pandoc ( http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ ), which converts Markdown with extensions and LaTeX formulas into LaTeX. I think it supports Org-mode too. Markdown would be excellent for sharing short notes and ideas among mathematicians, as opposed to full-blown papers. Also, great job! I like how simple and efficient the interface is.
Thanks! This is a great idea --- we'll see what we can do.
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Slick, thanks.
We aim to please :-)
WriteLaTeX looks pretty cool. Have you looked at using the methods from Kile for better syntax highlighting? I noticed a problem on the (otherwise excellent) main page with the text boxes: http://imgur.com/SojY1, Chrome 23.0.1271.95, Linux, zoom 125% (though that doesn't seem to change it). Also, is Asymptote support planned? (The rotatable 3D figures probably aren't very feasible, but everything else should be.)
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
We aim to please :-)
WriteLaTeX looks pretty cool. Have you looked at using the methods from Kile for better syntax highlighting? I noticed a problem on the (otherwise excellent) main page with the text boxes: http://imgur.com/SojY1 , Chrome 23.0.1271.95, Linux, zoom 125% (though that doesn't seem to change it). Also, is Asymptote support planned? (The rotatable 3D figures probably aren't very feasible, but everything else should be.)
Thanks!
We are working on better syntax highlighting. I'll have a look at Kile's, now that you've mentioned it.
Thanks for reporting the issue with the text boxes.
I hadn't seen Asymptote before, but it looks very good, so I'll have to think about it. Thanks for the link! :) (Edit: note that we do support pgfplots, which also makes nice plots.)
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#56Founder here... Great to see this on HN! Feedback much appreciated. Happy to answer questions...
Looks neat! Is there possibility to add vim key binding, including search with '/'?
Also Git versioning would be awesome!
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#57I can maybe see myself using this to tweak the last stages of a paper with a coauthor, but otherwise I can't imagine writing LaTeX without emacs keybindings (auctex, reftex, cdlatex, I'm leaving them all lowercase because I can't remember their idiosyncratic capitalization patterns). Case in point: in trying out your editor, I opened several new browser windows accidentally.
So, is there a way to upload latex and bibtex files?
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#58How well does this work from a Chromebook?
Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
#59I can maybe see myself using this to tweak the last stages of a paper with a coauthor, but otherwise I can't imagine writing LaTeX without emacs keybindings (auctex, reftex, cdlatex, I'm leaving them all lowercase because I can't remember their idiosyncratic capitalization patterns). Case in point: in trying out your editor, I opened several new browser windows accidentally. So, is there a way to upload latex and bib…
My documents are full of :w, ct. and kkkjjkk --- we are working on adding keybindings. :)
Yes, you can upload .tex and .bib files using the file menu.
Thanks for the feedback!