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For any poor soul that has to write LaTeX for whatever reason but doesn't want to bother installing anything, I cannot recommend https://www.sharelatex.com/ htt
by aduitsis 10y ago
For any poor soul that has to write LaTeX for whatever reason but doesn't want to bother installing anything, I cannot recommend https://www.sharelatex.com/ https://www.sharelatex.com/ enough.
- globuous 10y agoLove it. You can also edit latex documents with collaborators in real time. This is the only reason I got to make my team mates use to Latex for lab reports instead of Word. Latex isn't hard, and the fact that I could help them in real time and that they could see my code in our report's context got them pretty good at latex within an hour of using it !
- Cyph0n 10y agoI'm currently using Overleaf[1]. It has collaboration (no live tracking) in the free tier, support for BibTeX with auto-import from Zotero, auto-complete and syntax highlighting, and works completely in the browser. [1]: https://www.overleaf.com https://www.overleaf.com
- cyphar 10y agoNote that ShareLaTeX is entirely free software (under AGPL) and self-hostable. Overleaf is not.
- chronic6l 10y agoFurthermore, Overleaf has a history of occasionally losing people's data. That's bad for college and university folks.
- Cyph0n 10y agoSource please?
- jdleesmiller 10y ago(Overleaf co-founder here.) As far as I know, we've never lost any user data. We take that very seriously. If you believe you have lost data on Overleaf, please contact our support team via www.overleaf.com/contact and we'll investigate.