On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 02:14:20PM +0000, Sarah Mount wrote: > 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].
Yes, but you cannot use overleaf in WYSWIG mode, so people have to learn to work at the text file level, and without the rendering or help. That's a problem for trying to convince faculty (who may spend a lot of time on planes w/o good internet connections) to use it. This is hardly overleaf's fault :). It's a nice service! We did emphasize the ability to submit directly to biorxiv, and from there directly to an increasing number of bio journals! best, --titus _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
