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This is a great idea! I've been trying to collaborate my professor on academic papers with git. We tried my own git server, github, but they still seem to be t
by songgao 13y ago
This is a great idea!
I've been trying to collaborate my professor on academic papers with git. We tried my own git server, github, but they still seem to be too much trouble for people who do not use git regularly. Online LaTex editor integrated with the git service would be great! It would be better if you could add code highlight in the editor though. Also realtime PDF preview (maybe not realtime.. it'll be overwhelming for the server. A compile button?) would be awesome!
And for sure we need a separate community from Github just for academic publications. Mixing softwares and papers altogether is not a good idea. Banyan is really cool!
Congratulations on launching!
- twog 13y agoThanks songgao! Drop an email (mine is in my profile) and Ill get you signed up on our git-powered latex editor. It has most the features you just described, and is launching soon =)
- songgao 13y agoWow, thanks! I didn't find your email in your HN profile. Here's mine: song@gao.io
- zmjones 13y agoI would really like access to this too. I have been using sharelatex and the git support is still not there. My email is zmj@zmjones.com
- twog 13y agoThanks! Will do. I will drop you a line this afternoon
- songgao 13y agoHoly crap check this out: https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js It's pdflatex ported to javascript running in browser natively!
- songgao 13y agoBtw, LaTex compiler running in Native Client would be a potential solution to "realtime PDF preview". Not sure if it's a lot of work porting LaTex to NaCl though.
- micro_cam 13y agoThere were some articles a while back on why porting it to iOS was impossible/hard (loads of dependencies some of which are in a language knuth wrote) and I expect NaCl would be equally tough unless anyone has done a full C rewrite.