One of the PhD students I work with uses Overleaf. It worked for us, except it
failed (for us) on the commenting functionality, as the student wants to
receive comments in the LaTeX text, and I (and probably others) want to add
them through the web interface - the ‘add a comment’ button.
By the way, I may be wrong, but you can hook up overleaf to github, and perhaps
work offline that way?
Lex
> On 11 Feb 2016, at 15:11, 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.
>
> 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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