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 > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Discuss mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > -- > C. Titus Brown, [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > -- Dr. Sarah Mount, Research Associate, King's College London: http://soft-dev.org/ Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute: http://software.ac.uk/ twitter: @snim2
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