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Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by beck5 »

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 projects (hundreds of megs) elastically with several different compilers is not something you can crack in a weekend hence why I merge with http://www.scribtex.com.

Good luck to writelatex!

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by sweettea »

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…

Does scribtex do latex compilation as a service? (I emailed you guys about this at some point, and you said you had no plans to do this yourself, but how do ya'll work with scribtex?)

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by stared »

The is also http://www.scribtex.com/ (unfortunately, going down, but was nice, also supporting Git access), https://www.sharelatex.com/.

And for short LaTeX text, there is http://mathb.in/.

Also, http://www.scigit.com/ looks promising (not working yet, though).

See also: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27549/simultaneous-co...

Re: Online collaborative LaTeX editor

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Post by beck5 »

sweettea wrote: post #5
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…

Does scribtex do latex compilation as a service? (I emailed you guys about this at some point, and you said you had no plans to do this yourself, but how do ya'll work with scribtex?)

Yeah we do offer a LaTeX compile api (it's what powers scribtex and sharelatex). Drop us an email team at sharelatex.com and one of us will sort something out for you.
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