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Softcover handles Markdown + embedded LaTeX on your local machine (no 'net connection required) using a standard text editor and web browser: http://softcover.
by mhartl 11y ago
Softcover handles Markdown + embedded LaTeX on your local machine (no 'net connection required) using a standard text editor and web browser:
http://softcover.io/ http://softcover.io/
I use Softcover to write and maintain both the code-heavy Ruby on Rails Tutorial (http://railstutorial.org/book http://railstutorial.org/book) and the math-heavy Tau Manifesto (http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto). (Disclosure: I'm also the principal author of Softcover.)
- jedberg 11y agoI just watched your video and I think your tool is exactly what I'm looking for! Downloading it now. In the meantime, I was wondering if you ever compose on your iPad? What is your workflow for that?
- mhartl 11y agoUsing Softcover requires a standard shell & text editor, which I doubt is available on iPad. But it works great as a de facto second monitor, as described [here](http://manual.softcover.io/book/getting_started#sec-html_softcover_server http://manual.softcover.io/book/getting_started#sec-html_sof...).
- jedberg 11y agoOh well, I was hoping I'd missed something. I'll just keep doing what I'm doing now -- write it in Evernote and then copy/paste when I get back to a computer.
- rz2k 11y agoI've found Simplenote on the iPad and Notational Velocity or nvALT on a Mac to be a really lightweight and quick workflow. Plus, there's the added benefit of it all being plain text, whereas Evernote always seems to make guesses about unwanted formatting for me.
- nikdaheratik 11y agoHere's an iPad app that does Markdown + LaTeX: http://eqeditor.com/writer/ http://eqeditor.com/writer/ and then outputs HTML, ePub, etc. Not sure if it's exactly what you need but there you go.
- omegote 11y agoThat's seriously cool. Had I had something like that some years ago, my workflow for both my BSc and my MSc thesis would have been quite different.
- encore2097 11y agoIs the HTML generation with backlinks from an external lib or custom built for softcover? I'm working on a CMS and this would be fantastic to use as a module for writing articles.
- mhartl 11y agoNot sure exactly what you mean by "backlinks", but most of the software is custom-built.
- encore2097 11y agoah. backlink = back references, Figure 1.1 and link to the Figure 1.1 :) What your license for the project? If we wanted to use it, we'd porting it to Go and JS with our own stylized CSS.
- mhartl 11y agoCross-references are all custom. License is MIT. [1] Porting would likely be a huge PITA. [1]: http://github.com/softcover/softcover http://github.com/softcover/softcover