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 > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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
