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Will there be Paper and LaTeX integration?

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Shouldn't the opening of the Paper platform be the right opportunity to build a LaTeX collaboration system through Dropbox?

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Kaz

Hey Matteo

We’re excited to let you know that we’ve rolled out in-line LaTeX support in Paper. To start editing in LaTeX, simply type “$$" to enter LaTeX editing mode, and use the arrow keys to navigate out of the editing mode or press “enter” or “return” to escape it.

Try it out and let me know if you have some feedback!

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Matteo

This is a very interesting idea! I've let the Paper team know about the request! Out of interest, how would you use a LaTeX enabled collaboration system?

Matteo F.

Thank you for your interest, Kaz!

What I would really like to have in this king of platform is a versioning system which really works, with the possibility to highlight the parts to which each author contributed in different colours, a live chat and a todo list. Another inportant feature is the autofill and a dictionary for the symbols (check texstudio or something similar in order to understand what I mean).

A great plus would be to already have the templates of the most important journals, but I understand that this would not be worth the effort.

Have a nice day

Claus L.

I was just wondering whether such a feature is planned and found this.

This indeed would be great. Since scientific papers are written through dropbox between collaborators, the features Matteo mentioned could really come in handy. Highlighting the parts which each author edited by different colors could be based upon something like "latexdiff", for example.

Cheers,

Claus

Kaz

Hey Matteo

Try it out and let me know if you have some feedback!

B A.

Hi Kaz, I have been using this new feature a lot today and I think it works very well.

I am a mathematician, and LaTeX is essential for my work. Thanks for implementing it.

Levent S.

Great feature! Thanks very much!

Tomasz G.

in-line LaTeX support is great. It would be even better if it would be possible to create whole projects in LaTeX in the future.

john c.183

This is a really useful feature, thanks for adding it!

José Pablo Lean

What packages/commands are available with the in-line LaTeX support? I've tried to use \underbrace but didn't work, so I guess no asmath.

Berk D.

I still couldn't figure out how to enable Latex feature. $$ does not seem to work for me.

lukejanicke

How about display math? Single $ for inline and double $$ for display (e.g. configurable in KaTeX).

How about MathML rendering for supporting browsers? (e.g. TeXZilla)

emir

Hi,
I can not get in to the latex mode. When I type $$ nothing happens.
There is obviously something I misunderstood.

Sanchez

Hi emir,

When you type $$, you should see two sets of these symbols ($$ | $$), with your cursor in the middle. Type the code you want, and then hit the Enter key to render the code. You will need to do this each time you wish to enter LaTeX formatting into your document.

If you still experience the issue, try a different web browser to see if it is resolved.

Thanks

emir

Thanks it works on my Mac on both Safari and Chrome, but not on my Windows machine.

Sanchez

Hi emir,

Which browser are you using on your Windows machine? Maybe it needs to be updated?

You may want to take a look at any addons or plugins in the browser that may be interfering.

Let me know when you get a chance.

Thanks

Royi

Let's hope they start with separating $ Inline LaTeX Code $ from $$ Paragraph LaTeX Code $$.
It's something we have in any decent MarkDown Editor.

Thank You.

Royi

The current system is very limited.

What we need is $...$ for In Line Math and $$...$$ for Display Mode Math.

Moreover, we would like to have suppport for all MathJaX features (Basically all amsmath features and enviornments).

Any chance to have that?

This is a must for students.

Thank You.

Sanchez

Hey @Royi,

I appreciate your feedback on this, and I’m sending it over to our Paper team. Can’t say if they will implement any of your suggestions in upcoming releases, but at least they’ll be aware of them.

Thanks, and have a great weekend!

Royi

@Sanchez,

That would be great if you can forward this to the development team.

Students, Engineers, Programmers, Etc... will really appericiate this features.

They already made the hard work by incorporating MathJax, all needed is to match features of ther basic MarkDown editors.

For instace, have a look on ReText, StackEdit, HackMD, etc...
Even StackExchange editor in math oriented communities has this capability.

Thank You.

Sanchez

@Royi, I’ve added your latest comments to your previous feedback. Fingers crossed

Cheers!

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