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To be honest, I shared the LaTeX documentation of ShareLaTeX with you because it is plain excellent. Right now, I'm finishing my doctoral thesis and compiling
by rawland 9y ago
To be honest, I shared the LaTeX documentation of ShareLaTeX with you because it is plain excellent.
Right now, I'm finishing my doctoral thesis and compiling locally, because I'm without internet for long times due to travelling. Therefore, I scraped the docs to have a local copy.
Am glad to see the praise for ShareLaTeX here, though. Especially due to their solutions with ridiculous error messages and their general approach. When I encounter a cryptic problem I switch from vim+vimtex to texstudio -- which usually helps a lot by providing an overview, syncing the logs to the occurrence, organizing them by severity and enhancing understanding by unfolding the log.
The only difference between ShareLaTeX and overleaf I see, is SLs over-the-tops documentation. Kudos again and thanks.
For general interest, my current LaTeX workflow is:
* Write in vim + vimtex.
* Switch on continuous compiling (that's like ShareLaTeX).
* Using synctex to preview with zathura (lightweight pdf).
+ This is really nice, you can configure vimtex to it.
+ CTRL-Click into the (zathura) pdf focuses vim to the
corresponding position
+ <leader>lv in vim jumps to the position in the
pdf being open side-by-side in zathura.
* In case of complex errors open texstudio
* Save battery, use vimagic and be happy.
- cyphar 9y ago> The only difference between ShareLaTeX and overleaf I see, is SLs over-the-tops documentation. Kudos again and thanks. There is also the (awesome) fact that ShareLaTeX is free software (under the AGPL no less).[1] [1]: https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex
- rawland 9y agoDidn't know this. Thanks.
- paradite 9y agoI liked and used sharelatex initially, but my thesis was eventually moved to overleaf because overleaf has support for git repo (inside the share button), which is easier to manage for the research group.
- cyphar 9y agoShareLaTeX has support for "synchronising" to GitHub, though I'm not sure how that works. It's part of their paid subscription. One other benefit of ShareLaTeX is that they are completely free [as in freedom] software (under the AGPL).
- cben 9y agoThe sync to GitHub is not part of the AGPL source. (Giant kudos still for most of it being FOSS)