On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:11 PM, C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> We did an overleaf tutorial on Monday, which went quite well I think - at
> least, several people in the (intermediate) class have been poking at
> it since then :).
>
> https://github.com/ACharbonneau/LaTeX2016
>
> For overleaf, the integration of WYSIWG, help text, versioning, and help
> text seemed to impress people.  Inability to really work offline was the
> only thing I could really see being a (nearly) insurmountable obstacle*.
>
> --titus
>
> * yes, I know you can work offline with Latex files. But you can't do it
>   with overleaf, so people would have to learn something new.
>


Strictly speaking you can (whether it is useful for beginners is another
question) -- you can 'git clone' your Overleaf projects and work on them
offline that way:

https://www.overleaf.com/blog/195-new-collaborate-online-and-offline-with-overleaf-and-git-beta

[disclaimer: I'm an Overleaf Advisor].


Sarah



>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 03:05:27PM +0100, Lex Nederbragt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I learned a lot on printing history, that was fun!
> >
> > The text mentions the Jupyter notebook almost in passing, but isn???t
> this type of document (worth) its own category? Combining prose, code and
> analytical results as a recent invention for publishing scientific results?
> RMarkdown/knitr would fall in the same category. This then ties into the
> next paragraph ("One final consideration???).
> >
> > My initial response to the choice of LaTex for the lessonwas, ???I worry
> that LaTeX adoption by the learners may be low???. But then I realised that
> the same could have been (and perhaps was) said about git adoption by
> Software Carpentry workshop participants. That lesson works wonderfully
> well, in my experience, in that it does not at all scare learners away.
> Let???s hope the LaTeX lesson works out to be just as good (no pressure...
> :-) ).
> >
> >       Lex
> >
> >
> > > On 11 Feb 2016, at 12:18, Samuel Leli??vre <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thank you for pointing to this text. Maybe worth mentioning:
> > >
> > > - TeXmacs
> > >  http://texmacs.org/
> > >
> > > - SageMathCloud
> > >  https://cloud.sagemath.com/
> > >
> > > - reStructuredText
> > >  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText
> > >
> > > Samuel
> > >
> > >
> > > 2016-02-10 17:12 GMT+01:00 Greg Wilson <
> [email protected]>:
> > >> Hi everyone,
> > >>
> > >> Timoth??e Poisot started working on a lesson on modern scientific
> authoring a
> > >> while back, and I've recently been working on an introductory section
> for it
> > >> that explains the mess we're in with Word, Google Docs, LaTeX,
> Markdown, and
> > >> all that.  The latest version is online at
> > >>
> https://via.hypothes.is/http://swcarpentry.github.io/modern-scientific-authoring/01-mess.html
> ,
> > >> and I'd be grateful for feedback (which you can leave by filing
> issues at
> > >> https://github.com/swcarpentry/modern-scientific-authoring, or by
> mailing
> > >> me).  Please don't worry about typos and grammar at this point - what
> I'd be
> > >> most grateful for is whether this all makes sense.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Greg
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Dr Greg Wilson
> > >> Director of Instructor Training
> > >> Software Carpentry Foundation
> > >>
> > >>
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