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.

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