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James from ShareLaTeX here. I'm hanging around all day today ready for the barrage of pull requests that we're about to receive(!) so feel free to ask me any qu

by jpallen 13y ago

James from ShareLaTeX here. I'm hanging around all day today ready for the barrage of pull requests that we're about to receive(!) so feel free to ask me any questions.

mlevy 13y ago
No questions - just wanted to say thanks for a great product I really enjoy using!
infruset 13y ago
Thank you for a great product. We have been using it in my university to take collective notes during winter schools, it's been incredibly helpful! Basically, we are able to produce at the end of the conference a pdf with all the course notes, illustrations and links; it's like writing the book in real time.
- subdane 13y ago
  Whoa hey! I've been looking for something like this! Do you have any examples online of your group-created notes?
  - infruset 13y ago
    I do, however the issue is I had to make them publicly editable. If I post the link on HN, I'm worried about what would happen.. Do you want to see the sharelatex document, or would a pdf suffice?
    - subdane 13y ago
      PDF is fine! Thank you!
gjuggler 13y ago
Really cool to see this! I'm sure the effort required to make it open source will pay off in fostering an active technical community. Given the target market I'm sure you have many highly skilled users who would love (at the very least) to fix their favorite bugs. On a related note, recently at http://paperpile.com/ http://paperpile.com/ we've been thinking about ways to help our users connect their reference manager with web-based writing environments like ShareLaTeX. We've had some ideas about how to do this simply and cleanly, but I suppose now we could show you guys (via pull request) rather than tell now. :-)
- jpallen 13y ago
  We'd love to start pushing forward on some reference manager integrations, so a pull request would be amazing! It might be best to have a quick chat about how to implement this. My email should be in my profile.
hootener 13y ago
Great work, James. I think I'll fork this code and give it look-see. I manage the dissertation/thesis template for my department on github. The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates. The problem I've found with managing it this way is that I'll invariably get a slew of emails from students throughout the semester wanting me to troubleshoot their LaTeX installs to make the template work. 99% of the time the problem is on their end, 1% of the time it results in something that actually improves the template somehow. It would be awesome if I could just point them to your service where a hosted (and guaranteed to work) version of the template resides. Can I just shoot you a github link[1] to get it incorporated or is there some other process I should go through? (e.g., would you prefer me to send you a zip? I figure what's the point since it's already on github, but if you prefer that approach I can get you a zip) [1] https://github.com/hootener/LaTeX-Vanderbilt-Dissertation-Format https://github.com/hootener/LaTeX-Vanderbilt-Dissertation-Fo...
- jpallen 13y ago
  I've put this on our template todo list, thanks!
  - hootener 13y ago
    Awesome, I'll keep an eye out for it
  - FraaJad 13y ago
    Could you please add the Purdue thesis/dissertation template on that list? https://engineering.purdue.edu/~mark/puthesis/ https://engineering.purdue.edu/~mark/puthesis/ Thanks.
- thearn4 13y ago
  > The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates. This was the unwritten ritual at my department when I was in graduate school too. But no one there really used VCS. Who knows how long that thing had been passed around and tweaked.

by jpallen 13y ago

James from ShareLaTeX here. I'm hanging around all day today ready for the barrage of pull requests that we're about to receive(!) so feel free to ask me any questions.

mlevy 13y ago

No questions - just wanted to say thanks for a great product I really enjoy using!

infruset 13y ago

Thank you for a great product. We have been using it in my university to take collective notes during winter schools, it's been incredibly helpful! Basically, we are able to produce at the end of the conference a pdf with all the course notes, illustrations and links; it's like writing the book in real time.

subdane 13y ago
Whoa hey! I've been looking for something like this! Do you have any examples online of your group-created notes?
- infruset 13y ago
  I do, however the issue is I had to make them publicly editable. If I post the link on HN, I'm worried about what would happen.. Do you want to see the sharelatex document, or would a pdf suffice?
  - subdane 13y ago
    PDF is fine! Thank you!

gjuggler 13y ago

Really cool to see this! I'm sure the effort required to make it open source will pay off in fostering an active technical community. Given the target market I'm sure you have many highly skilled users who would love (at the very least) to fix their favorite bugs. On a related note, recently at http://paperpile.com/ http://paperpile.com/ we've been thinking about ways to help our users connect their reference manager with web-based writing environments like ShareLaTeX. We've had some ideas about how to do this simply and cleanly, but I suppose now we could show you guys (via pull request) rather than tell now. :-)

jpallen 13y ago
We'd love to start pushing forward on some reference manager integrations, so a pull request would be amazing! It might be best to have a quick chat about how to implement this. My email should be in my profile.

hootener 13y ago

Great work, James. I think I'll fork this code and give it look-see. I manage the dissertation/thesis template for my department on github. The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates. The problem I've found with managing it this way is that I'll invariably get a slew of emails from students throughout the semester wanting me to troubleshoot their LaTeX installs to make the template work. 99% of the time the problem is on their end, 1% of the time it results in something that actually improves the template somehow. It would be awesome if I could just point them to your service where a hosted (and guaranteed to work) version of the template resides. Can I just shoot you a github link[1] to get it incorporated or is there some other process I should go through? (e.g., would you prefer me to send you a zip? I figure what's the point since it's already on github, but if you prefer that approach I can get you a zip) [1] https://github.com/hootener/LaTeX-Vanderbilt-Dissertation-Format https://github.com/hootener/LaTeX-Vanderbilt-Dissertation-Fo...

jpallen 13y ago
I've put this on our template todo list, thanks!
- hootener 13y ago
  Awesome, I'll keep an eye out for it
- FraaJad 13y ago
  Could you please add the Purdue thesis/dissertation template on that list? https://engineering.purdue.edu/~mark/puthesis/ https://engineering.purdue.edu/~mark/puthesis/ Thanks.
thearn4 13y ago
> The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates. This was the unwritten ritual at my department when I was in graduate school too. But no one there really used VCS. Who knows how long that thing had been passed around and tweaked.