On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 03:15:53PM +0100, Lex Nederbragt wrote: > 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.
Since the add a comment button inserts them as comments in the latex text, surely a little postprocessing could have gotten the student his wish... > By the way, I may be wrong, but you can hook up overleaf to github, and > perhaps work offline that way? People like you are the reason I put in that footnote, Lex. :) > > 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. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
