From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:00:04 +0000 (+0100) Subject: New post. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/5979d8b1ab077e22b3092c31ce751a69c1c62585?ds=sidebyside New post. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2017-10-31-latex-web-editor.txt b/blog/data/2017-10-31-latex-web-editor.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..39784d4920 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/data/2017-10-31-latex-web-editor.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Title: Web services for writing academic LaTeX papers as a team +Tags: english +Date: 2017-10-31 21:00 + +

I was surprised today to learn that a friend in academia did not +know there are easily available web services available for writing +LaTeX documents as a team. I thought it was common knowledge, but to +make sure at least my readers are aware of it, I would like to mention +these useful services for writing LaTeX documents. Some of them even +provide a WYSIWYG editor to ease writing even further.

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There are two commercial services available, ShareLaTeX and Overleaf. They are very easy to use. +Just start a new document, select which publisher to write for (ie +which LaTeX style to use), and start writing. Note, these two have announced their +intention to join forces, so soon it will only be one joint service. +I've used both for different documents, and they work just fine. +While ShareLaTeX is +free software, while the latter is not. According to a +announcement from Overleaf, they plan to keep the ShareLaTeX code +base maintained as free software.

+ +But these two are not the only alternatives. +Fidus Writer is another free +software solution with the +source available on github. I have not used it myself. Several +others can be found on the nice +alterntiveTo +web service. + +

If you like Google Docs or Etherpad, but would like to write +documents in LaTeX, you should check out these services. You can even +host your own, if you want to. :)

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