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Re: LaTeX Workflow on iPad

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Post by robenkleene » Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 9:07 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #89

robenkleene wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m only interested in whether the majority of professional developers are able to ship software to their users. Is your stance that you can do that just fine with just the tools you listed and therefore professional developers don’t need the command line on iOS?

I guess that I am not a professional developer, apparently.

Haha, not sure about that, but you most certainly aren't the "majority of professional developers". Neither am I, that's a whole bunch of people who couldn't care less about how you or I want to work.

Re: LaTeX Workflow on iPad

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Post by SuperTachyon » Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 9:46 PM UTC

goerz wrote: post #19

I find Texpad to work great in principle, although I get frustrated by any text editor that is not vim. If you have the ability to sideload (that is, you have a developer account), there is a fork of iVim ( https://github.com/holzschu/iVim ) that supports running TeXLive locally on the iPad. I wrote up some notes on how to make this work some time ago: https://michaelgoerz.net/notes/editing-latex-on-the-ipad-wit... W…

I actually came across your setup when figuring out mine. Thanks for sharing!

Re: LaTeX Workflow on iPad

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Post by pjmlp » Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 9:44 AM UTC

robenkleene wrote: post #91

pjmlp wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess that I am not a professional developer, apparently.

Haha, not sure about that, but you most certainly aren't the "majority of professional developers". Neither am I, that's a whole bunch of people who couldn't care less about how you or I want to work.

Professional MacOS developers, before OS X was born, did not use a command line at all, so Photoshop was created by amateurs?

Same applies to developers on Amiga and AtariST, also less professional?

Or what about Windows developers, that hardly bothered with cmd.com, doing their scripting via VBScript/JSCript and everything else via Visual Studio, as it was common practice until PowerShell, with its PowerShell IDE sprung into existence, also a bunch of amateurs?

Don't judge professional developers on other platforms with UNIX glasses on.