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I understand this as a good hack, but I don't really get why anyone would want to run TeX on an iPad/iPhone. I mean, phones and tablets seem to be good at ever

I understand this as a good hack, but I don't really get why anyone would want to run TeX on an iPad/iPhone. I mean, phones and tablets seem to be good at everything except for extensive typing. I would never want to work on a paper on my tablet, I can barely type out a long email on it without getting frustrated.

cyrus_ 14y ago
You can use Bluetooth keyboards with iOS.
duaneb 14y ago
I do most of my typing on my iPad via a bluetooth keyboard.
- radarsat1 14y ago
  Cool, but why not just use a laptop then?
  - duaneb 14y ago
    Because I can't detach the keyboard from the laptop, and my laptop doesn't have 3g.
podperson 14y ago
I read somewhere a bunch of people (teenagers / college students) saying that they could type at normal speed on iPad glass keyboards, so I did an experiment and with no practice could achieve over 40wpm (and I suck -- I get about 60wpm on a "proper" keyboard, which is fine since I don't compose prose or code faster than that). I suspect that it's partially an acclimatization issue, and getting over the hump just requires time. (My "hump" for getting to be as productive with a trackpad as with a mouse, by comparison, was about 12 years...)