Scott Kostyshak <skostysh <at> lyx.org> writes: > > LyX can be used through a webbrowser on the cloud at rollApp. There are > many reasons not to do this, but I'm curious if anyone has actually used > this for any serious work? > > I just tried it out for a test run. It is easy: > > 1. go to https://www.rollapp.com/app/lyx > 2. click "Launch Online" > 3. choose "Test Drive" > > Scott >
I have considered using it for serious work (e.g., to write grant proposals and professional science papers with my research team). LyX on rollApp looked like an answer to a long quest for something that satisfied my following 3 criteria: 1) must allow "track changes" that can be accepted or not, in an easy-to-use approach similar to that of MS Word; 2) allow one to see the cursor carets of other collaborators, just like in Google Doc, so that one knows what part of the document that another team member is editing at that moment, thereby avoiding an unanticipated battle-for-words in a sentence; and 3) (not a hard requirement, but a nice-to-have) works directly from Google Drive, so that one doesn't have papers scattered across the internet in various stand-alone archives (e.g., Overleaf, SharelaTex, etc). But here was the show-stopper: I could not figure out how to get LyX on rollApp to incorporate the Document Class that I needed for the journal that I was submitting the paper to. "Document -> Settings" and then looking at the pull-down menu under "Document Class", the file that I needed was listed, but was grayed out, and I couldn't figure out what to do to make the software accept/upload the desired .cls file. Any ideas on how to resolve this problem? If I could get past this problem, I'd use this tool as my primary collaborative tool in a heartbeat. (Even though I did find the interface to be a bit sluggish at times, and it would even freeze on occasion).
