LaTeX Lab - Web Based LaTeX Editor 
By Bobby on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:39:43 +0000
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latex,
google docs,
gwt,
editor,
appengine,
gdata,
Development
Development is in Python and Java and makes use of the following environments and frameworks:- Google Web ToolKit
- Google AppEngine
- Google GData API
Official Links
The official site for this project is available at:http://www.latexlab.org
The source and bug tracker will be accessible in the following Google Code page:
http://code.google.com/p/latex-lab/
Joining the Project
If you have development experience with LaTeX, GWT, Python and/or the AppEngine i would welcome your help.You can contact me at: bobbysoares (at) gmail (dot) com
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I really liked what are you doing here, I am into a very similar project for the University of Patras Greece. Department of Electrical Engineering and computer Science. I was thinking if could join your team, and let me have a look at your code. thank you
Hi! The whole idea of LaTexLab is great, in fact just he thing I need to work on LaTeX documents on comuters that have no LaTeX installed. However, I use utf-8 (some documents are in Polish and I appreciate the possibility to enter some signs directly from keyboard), and I somehow cannot get it working in LaTexLab. inputenc package along with some packages for non-English hyphenation patterns would be nice.
I can't but support the idea of using google docs, for the collaboration. Will it be possible to keep the great general latex structure, and the editor? That would be a great help for those who aren't that much involved (yet) into LaTeX.
Hi I love LaTeX and I love where your project seems to be going! Quick reasons - I started a non-profit to write free high school science textbooks - and we use LaTeX for the typesetting. The problem is so few teachers are happy to use LaTeX. I'd really like to know if there is way we could plug in your stuff to our site so that we could make the basic LaTeX stuff more user friendly - it would make a HUGE difference. At the moment people just have to type latex into a normal textarea and then we compile it on the server and give back a pdf file. Its very clunky right now but the books do look good. The project site is www.fhsst.org. Please drop me a mail if you guys are still working on the latex editor because I think its great! Mark
Hi Bobby, I love this, it's exactly what I've been looking for. The only issue I have is that lines don't soft wrap in the source window. I haven't seen anyone else mention this, so either I've got something goofed up here with my browser (Firefox 2.0.0.6, Mac OS X 10.4.10) or I'm the only one who never uses hard returns in paragraphs of text in Latex. Thanks for the great work.
Hi, First I have to express my biggest respect. The project is absolutely great. Just the thing I was looking for. My only question: Does the collab tool work already and it's only me who couldn't find out so far how, or the buttons are only placeholders at the moment without much function behind. Sipi
Hi, This is an exciting project. Can you tell more details about the feature sets for the editor and project management that you plan to include
I am a high school maths teacher. I would like to do a maths forum online with my students. Would like to be able to insert maths symbols and draw tools into the forum page to faciliate discussion. At the moment, do you have something that I can start working with ? Thanks.
I just wanted to give a thumbs up and add my support for your efforts here. Thousands of academics and publishers alike will appreciate this tool. It would be nice if the build pipeline for a document type (dvi->ps2pdf->pdf), along with the class/style resources (.cls or .sty) could be bundled and setup by publishers ahead of time for authors. This would fix alot of headaches on both sides, im sure.
this is a very exciting and potentially remarkably useful tool, which I am looking forward to use. it would be great to get at least some indication on what is the state of the project, and when some beta functionality may be expected.
Interesting. But there already exist some very sophisticated online latex editors which support in-browser syntax highlighting, .pdf generation/preview and other stuff (e.g. check http://www.verbosus.com ) Maybe a cooperation would be interesting?