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   A cheat sheet for web-friendly LaTeX(authorea.com)

   1 points by apepe 12y ago|0 comments
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   by apepe 12y ago

   Why are you not optimistic? It takes time, yes, but 7 years is a long time. I personally am optimistic wrt what HTML+CSS can do in terms of typesetting (even PDFs): https://authorea.com/users/3/articles/4675&#
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   by apepe 12y ago

   Will the next "TeX tuneup" be in HTML rather than PDF? One can only hope.
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   Science was always meant to be "open"(authorea.com)

   2 points by apepe 12y ago|0 comments
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   by apepe 13y ago

   piacere mio!
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   by apepe 13y ago

   Thank you. I will join the discussion. And wow, hackpad looks so good.
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   by apepe 13y ago

   hey yuchi- I talked to the Substance guys just a few days ago. Great guys. We hope to collaborate with them soon. I am not sure why Authorea is not "ethical" though. Ciao!
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   by apepe 13y ago

   great point about MS Word use.. see my other comment. And yeah our name is prone to explosive jokes... :)
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   by apepe 13y ago

   hi, great point. It is true that at the moment our userbase is mostly physicists/astrophysicists and computer scientists who heavily use LaTeX. But we are not super committed to LaTeX. (In fact, I am annoyed by LaTeX as much as the nex
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    How is Authorea different from Google Docs?(authorea.com)

    45 points by apepe 13y ago|27 comments
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    Goodbye academia? Hello, academia.(authorea.com)

    1 points by apepe 13y ago|0 comments
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    by apepe 13y ago

    In academia though, most scholars tend to stick to PDF for reading papers, see e.g. http://www.quora.com/Why-do-scientists-tend-to-prefer-PDF-do...
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    by apepe 13y ago

    Thanks, yes! We know and are in touch with all these guys (writelatex, mendeley, and peerj). Great stuff coming out of London in this space. Digital Science and Figshare are also there. We are very excited that there's a movement to ch
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    by apepe 13y ago

    thanks! I did come across substance.io a few months ago. Seems like they made a lot of progress. Looks beautiful. It's time to get in touch with them again.
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    by apepe 13y ago

    hi fiddlosopher, we love Pandoc! We use it extensively and find it to work very very well with most TeX content. The only problematic part is tables (e.g. captions do not render in the latest pandoc version).
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    by apepe 13y ago

    Agreed. That is one reason why most technical and scientific documents are still perused in PDF. In Authorea you can export each document to a journal format (Export). Soon we will have a printer-friendly style which is basically CSS.
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    LaTeX was not built for the web(authorea.com)

    54 points by apepe 13y ago|75 comments
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    Research collaboration in the Cloud: Plotly and Authorea(authorea.com)

    3 points by apepe 13y ago|0 comments
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    by apepe 13y ago

    hi @kmatzen/@mallyvai! Adding briefly to Nate's comment (my co-founder at Authorea), I would like to point out that we do support many popular LaTeX packages. One big reason why we do not support custom LaTeX packages is that some
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    by apepe 14y ago

    I partly agree with your supervisor. While publications are indeed milestones and are great for obtaining recognition in the scholarly community, they can still exist and accomplish their function alongside their "rich" counterparts: online
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    by apepe 14y ago

    hi jclos, I don't think that putting out research content out in the open is insane, as you say. While privacy is indeed a good and a safe idea in a number of contexts, for most research projects, sharing the full sources from the very begi
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    by apepe 14y ago

    hi there- well, you could also say that Git is free, while GitHub is not. But that would be a far-fetched statement because GitHub is currently a free service for (hundreds of?) thousands of users who publish source code in the open (Open S
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    by apepe 14y ago

    At the moment it is mostly GitHub-flavored markdown. We did consider Pandoc-flavor, but for the time being we are sticking to GitHub's. We might change it slightly. So far, 80% of our users have authored in LaTeX so we have been busy suppor
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    by apepe 14y ago

    Thanks John. Authorea founder here. First off, I have tried writelatex for the first time just a couple of weeks ago and it really works great to create beautiful documents. Great work. Yes, we (and most scholars in general) are very used t
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    by apepe 14y ago

    Thanks Richard! I am so glad you like Authorea. It was great chatting about Academia.edu last month at the Berkman. I look forward to meeting up soon. --Alberto
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    by apepe 14y ago

    yes, we (scientists and scholars) still rely on the exchange of PDFs to communicate research. This is a pity. The problem is that a scholarly paper in PDF, even when it is on the web, it is essentially a photograph of a (physical, analog) p
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    by apepe 14y ago

    yep, git access and offline mode are two features that are coming real soon. thanks again!
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    by apepe 14y ago

    hi toomim, yes we are still a bit rough around the edges. We are only a few months old. If you can let us know what bugs you found, it'd be great. And we will definitely announce it again as soon as we are ready for a more official launch.
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    by apepe 14y ago

    hi there- by and large, authors are allowed to publish the pre-print and post-print versions of their published manuscripts (pre-print being the version right before editor proof-reading, and post-print any version following publication). A
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    by apepe 14y ago

    thanks for the tip! You are right indeed. Not the best use of whitespace there. We are still polishing up the front end a bit. It would be wonderful if you gave Authorea a try for your thesis. Feel free to get in touch for support as render