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As a potential user, I am quite unsure as to why I would use this over something like TexStudio or even VSCode enabled with some LaTeX plugins. Could you tell m

As a potential user, I am quite unsure as to why I would use this over something like TexStudio or even VSCode enabled with some LaTeX plugins. Could you tell me/us some pro/cons of this?

vinni2 5y ago
May be you could host it like overleaf? Eliminates the need to install latex which can be quite space consuming.
- adornedCupcake 5y ago
  Using texlive package manager plus a python auto-package installer wrapper for latexmk I was able to get my latex install down to a 300MB.
williamstein 5y ago
I am the co-author of a very similar application (CoCalc for LaTeX) and our landing page https://cocalc.com/doc/latex-editor.html https://cocalc.com/doc/latex-editor.html lists many of the reasons people use it. A number of the reasons apply also to JupyterLab LaTeX, or will soon. A quick summary: realtime collaboration, having the paper you're writing and the data you're computing in the same place, having a very high-resolution history of edits, using latex in course management, using a Chromebook or other lightweight client, and zero configuration support for PythonTex and R (knitr). Note that some of these reasons for using JupyterLab or CoCalc are things that https://www.overleaf.com/ https://www.overleaf.com/ doesn't provide.
- harles 5y ago
  Having your data and your reports all in one place seems like the big selling point and I see this as pretty exciting.
- mrlatinos 5y ago
  > realtime collaboration, ... having a very high-resolution history of edits It's my understanding that JupyterLab doesn't support concurrent editing or version control, unless these are baked into this extension?
  - jdnier 5y ago
    Same here. It's the most painful limitation of Jupyter, in my experience.
  - williamstein 5y ago
    Coming soon - they just closed their concurrent editing ticket! :-). https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/5382#event-4742301847 https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/5382#event-4...

As a potential user, I am quite unsure as to why I would use this over something like TexStudio or even VSCode enabled with some LaTeX plugins. Could you tell me/us some pro/cons of this?

vinni2 5y ago

May be you could host it like overleaf? Eliminates the need to install latex which can be quite space consuming.

adornedCupcake 5y ago
Using texlive package manager plus a python auto-package installer wrapper for latexmk I was able to get my latex install down to a 300MB.

williamstein 5y ago

I am the co-author of a very similar application (CoCalc for LaTeX) and our landing page https://cocalc.com/doc/latex-editor.html https://cocalc.com/doc/latex-editor.html lists many of the reasons people use it. A number of the reasons apply also to JupyterLab LaTeX, or will soon. A quick summary: realtime collaboration, having the paper you're writing and the data you're computing in the same place, having a very high-resolution history of edits, using latex in course management, using a Chromebook or other lightweight client, and zero configuration support for PythonTex and R (knitr). Note that some of these reasons for using JupyterLab or CoCalc are things that https://www.overleaf.com/ https://www.overleaf.com/ doesn't provide.

harles 5y ago
Having your data and your reports all in one place seems like the big selling point and I see this as pretty exciting.
mrlatinos 5y ago
> realtime collaboration, ... having a very high-resolution history of edits It's my understanding that JupyterLab doesn't support concurrent editing or version control, unless these are baked into this extension?
- jdnier 5y ago
  Same here. It's the most painful limitation of Jupyter, in my experience.
- williamstein 5y ago
  Coming soon - they just closed their concurrent editing ticket! :-). https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/5382#event-4742301847 https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/5382#event-4...