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Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor
- krschultz 17y agoExcellent! I was just wishing someone made something like this the other day after feeling that using Latex on Windows 7 was a subpar experience to what I was used to on Ubuntu.
- Hacktivist 17y agoCan you expand on what you thought was subpar about using Latex on Windows 7? I use Latex almost exclusively and for such an obscure (compared to Office) document publishing system, Latex has some pretty amazing tools available for Windows. If you go the full IDE path you have TeXnicCenter, WinEdt, and LEd. If you go text editor path you have your favorite editor to write the source and latexmk to automatically build when the source file changes. Combine your favorite way of writing with MiKTex for the core program and package management and you have a bulletproof way of using Latex in Windows.
- rlm 17y agoHave you tried Emacs with AUCTeX and MiKTeX?
- abeppu 17y agoI love this idea. But it looks like for the moment, their 'compile' feature (set to 'default compiler') on ec2 is overloaded.
- SandB0x 17y agoNice. I also recommend the Watexy bot for Google Wave if you want to try some form of collaborative mathematics.
- arebop 17y agoto try this add watexy@appspot.com to your wave.
- theboos 17y agoGood idea! The preview pane only worked the second time I compiled though. Exporting to pdf gave me a broken link however.
- robryan 17y agoGreat idea, would be useful at uni for me because for some reason a lot of the time they have seemed to installed a latex specific editor, recommended latex, but not installed the compiler.
- nimrody 17y agoI was kind of hoping for something along the lines of LyX. Where you always see and edit a rough approximation of the document (jsMath might be useful for math display).
- andresmh 17y agoAwesome project. I wish had the real time collaboration like google docs though.
- samratjp 17y agoDammit Google, why didn't you have this out when I was trying to take notes in Google Docs during a bazillion math classes?
- Sujan 17y agoBecause it's not by Google, but only using Google APIs.
- pmiller2 17y agoIt's been my experience that taking notes on a computer in math classes is generally a bad idea. Even if you're able to capture all the necessary equations, there's no way you can embed diagrams on the fly, even with a good, dedicated editor. Though using the computer to take notes could certainly work in, say, a history course, I find that paper and pencil are still the best tools for the job of taking notes in math class.
- bho 17y agosuper neat. i tried to access it earlier and it was down, but i'm glad it's working now.