[HN Gopher] Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborat...
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       Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX
       editor
        
       Author : kaladin-jasnah
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2024-06-29 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | piecerough wrote:
       | It's great!
        
       | tombert wrote:
       | I've known about Overleaf for almost as long as I've used LaTeX
       | and until about two years ago, I didn't really understand the
       | point of it; it's not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything,
       | what's the advantage of a web service?
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       | It wasn't until I started doing my PhD work where I realized the
       | Overleaf is useful, because the collaborative tools are extremely
       | handy. LaTeX is very popular in the academic world, and Overleaf
       | allows me to easily work on papers with my advisors (who live in
       | a different continent). It's been great.
       | 
       | I do wish they'd add Pandoc support; LaTeX is cool but I find
       | Markdown considerably more pleasant about 95% of the time, so
       | it'd be great if they could let us use that, though I realize
       | this is probably easier said than done.
        
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