In case this is helpful, my colleagues and I use overleaf and make comments in
latex with bold and a color.
My take on overleaf: There are limits to the number of figures (non-paying
version) and my papers timeout the online compiler more often than I’d like. I
use the git cloning features often for offline editing and pushing new figures.
How we comment:
You need a little latex-foo, but not much:
\newcommand{\phil}[1]{{\color{red}{\bf #1}}}
and in the text:
\phil{Some very enlightening comment}
Best,
Phil
> On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:20 AM, C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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