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Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

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ShareLaTeX is such a joy to use. I used to write a lot of LaTeX, but don't anymore, so don't even have it installed on my laptop. Whenever I need to typeset anything, I just pop it into their web interface, do some light editing and off I go.

It's clean, fast, not clunky, it just does what it's supposed to. I wish you all the best, guys.

Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

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Hey, James from ShareLaTeX here. We’re very excited about what this means for ShareLaTeX and Overleaf! The blog post says most of what we wanted to say, but all four founders from ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are around this evening (we’re in the UK) to answer questions if you have any. Give us a little while to reply though, since we’re all trying to have dinner too! :)

Which code editor are you going to keep? ShareLaTeX and Overleaf use different technology and look quite different.

The current plan is to base the new editor on the the ShareLaTeX editor, but bring in the good parts of Overleaf to it.

Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

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Hey, James from ShareLaTeX here. We’re very excited about what this means for ShareLaTeX and Overleaf! The blog post says most of what we wanted to say, but all four founders from ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are around this evening (we’re in the UK) to answer questions if you have any. Give us a little while to reply though, since we’re all trying to have dinner too! :)

I just did your survey, but forgot to mention a feature idea. I recently finished a typesetting a master thesis, which I converted with pandoc from docx to tex. Together with the Harvard Thesis template it was a bliss and took just ~6 hours to set the ~80 pages. Maybe a document converting feature (via pandoc!?) would help the merged product :) (And I would totally pay for that :D)

Thanks for the suggestion! We have played around with pandoc as an option in the ShareLaTeX compiler, but we weren't able to get it working smoothly enough for us to be happy with it. But it's definitely on our radar.

Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

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Hey, James from ShareLaTeX here. We’re very excited about what this means for ShareLaTeX and Overleaf! The blog post says most of what we wanted to say, but all four founders from ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are around this evening (we’re in the UK) to answer questions if you have any. Give us a little while to reply though, since we’re all trying to have dinner too! :)

Are you all looking into allowing the use of the editor offline and then syncing the changes when the user gets online?

Not as a direct product offering from us, but we want to make sure it's always easy to get your work in and out of Overleaf/ShareLaTeX, and work offline, via things like git, GitHub and Dropbox.

Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

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I'm pretty excited for this. Overleaf is awesome! I've used it for a few years and have over 50 projects on my dashboard, but I checked out sharelatex a few months ago and was pretty impressed by some of their features. I didn't feel like switching because I feel a bit invested in overleaf with the number of projects, so I didn't investigate further. I hope that this can merge the best features of both programs and m…

Hi Pitaa -- thanks for this, great to hear you've been a regular Overleaf user and have enjoyed it! :)

On your side question: it's a tricky one, as although we do try to keep pace with the different browser updates to keep in the in-browser experience ok on ios, I agree it's not ideal. Long term we do want to do something better, but it's not an immediate priority (given that mobile use of Overleaf for editing is still relatively low, and we find that a lot of tablet users use separate keyboards). Hope that helps clarify, even if I don't have an immediate solution!

Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which code editor are you going to keep? ShareLaTeX and Overleaf use different technology and look quite different.

The current plan is to base the new editor on the the ShareLaTeX editor, but bring in the good parts of Overleaf to it.

Hopefully vi-support, that's the feature that brought me to overleaf in the first place!

Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

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I've used both Overleaf and Sharelatex for my senior work and this move is worrying. I started with Overleaf but had to migrate over to Sharelatex due to the raw size of my file, which overleaf limits (at least in their free tier). Note that i'm not talking about data storage per user account, but a maximum document size. I hope the new platform adopts Sharelatex's file size limit.

Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The current plan is to base the new editor on the the ShareLaTeX editor, but bring in the good parts of Overleaf to it.

Hopefully vi-support, that's the feature that brought me to overleaf in the first place!

Vi support is same in both Ace used in ShareLaTex and CodeMirror used in Overleaf

Re: ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

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DAE keep finding their eye drawn to this headline because their brain sees it as a story about Shia LaBeouf?

I mean, I don't really care about Shia LaBeouf, but I'm unfamiliar with ShareLaTeX and Overleaf so I keep pausing on this headline as I parse it.

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