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I absolutely love ShareLaTeX. It's one of the few products that is kind of niche but does one thing and does it really well. I definitely get $8 a month worth
by Xcelerate 10y ago
I absolutely love ShareLaTeX. It's one of the few products that is kind of niche but does one thing and does it really well. I definitely get $8 a month worth out of their service. Having used MacTeX and similar products, ShareLaTeX is just a much smoother user experience. Not to mention their documentation is great and really gets to the point of what you are often trying to do. I've used their service on the last three research papers I've written and have been sharing the platform with different professors I work with.
(I sound like a shill, but check my comment history — I'm not affiliated with them. Just a happy customer.)
- beck5 10y agoThanks, you would be surprised what a big difference it makes when we hear nice things about ShareLaTeX. (I am a ShareLaTeX person)
- maxnoe 10y agoYou are doing great work. But what I cannot understand is, how you still recommend stuff like $$ in a new beginners guide in 2017. I had several moments in this tutorial where I thought: Oh, god. This got deprecated 20 years ago.
- yzmtf2008 10y agoOut of curiosity, what should I use instead? And what are some tutorials that promote more modern techniques?
- ajholyoake 10y ago\begin{equation} ... \end{equation}. Finding modern resources to learn LaTeX (and indeed TeX for macros etc) has been a perennial difficulty for me!
- occamrazor 10y agoOr \[ ... \] for unnumbered equations.
- maxnoe 10y agoI would use \begin{equation*} ... \end{equation*} for consistency and ease of switching between numbered and unnumbered. It's true, finding modern LaTeX tutorials is even harder that modern c++. It shares many of the same problems. We put together a LaTeX course (in german) for physics student every year and keep it up to date with best practices as much as possible: http://toolbox.pep-dortmund.org/files/archive/latest/latex.pdf http://toolbox.pep-dortmund.org/files/archive/latest/latex.p...
- thetwentyone 10y agoFWIW, it's not just ShareLaTeX... I learned LaTeX a few years ago and through the tutorials and resources I used I learned the `$$` syntax. I'm a very infrequent user, but this is the first I've heard that it was depreciated at all, let alone 20 years ago. I do support OP's thoughts that a 'modern' LaTeX solution like ShareLaTeX should encourage best practices though.
- wgjordan 10y agoAnother unaffiliated happy customer here, ShareLaTeX is awesome.
- sjroot 10y agoAgreed. I just finished a paper on ShareLaTeX today. Absolutely love it.
- partycoder 10y agoLooks great. I don't publish but use LaTeX for presentations (with beamer), with LaTeXila. Do you recomend ShareLaTeX for that use case as well?
- kirrent 10y agoBeamer works just fine on shareLaTeX. I've never had a problem.
- andrepd 10y agoPersonally I just can't get used to using a slow web app. I much prefer working in a native editor or IDE (like TeXStudio). I still use Sharelatex in a pinch, when I'm another machine or something, but I breathe a sigh of relief when I'm back on a native app.
- thek3nger 10y agoOne of my favourite feature of Overleaf (another cloud LaTeX Editor) is that I can use git to work on my cloud project on my local machine. It seems to me the best of both worlds.
- Vinnl 10y agoAnd it's open source to boot!
- rawland 10y agoSeeng the joy with LaTeX: LaTeX users significantly more often reported to enjoy their work with their respective software than Word users (t (36.27) = -3.23, p <. 01). From: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... You are not alone. :-)