You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
Will there be Paper and LaTeX integration?
Hi!
Shouldn't the opening of the Paper platform be the right opportunity to build a LaTeX collaboration system through Dropbox?
Best,
M
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 “$$" to enter LaTeX editing mode, and use the arrow keys to navigate out of the editing mode or press “enter” or “return” to escape it.
Try it out and let me know if you have some feedback!
- Kaz
Dropbox Staff
Hey Matteo
We’re excited to let you know that we’ve rolled out in-line LaTeX support in Paper. To start editing in LaTeX, simply type “$$" 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!
How about display math? Single $ for inline and double $$ for display (e.g. configurable in KaTeX).
How about MathML rendering for supporting browsers? (e.g. TeXZilla)
The current system is very limited.
What we need is $...$ for In Line Math and $$...$$ for Display Mode Math.
Moreover, we would like to have suppport for all MathJaX features (Basically all amsmath features and enviornments).
Any chance to have that?
This is a must for students.
Thank You.
- Sanchez
- Hi,
I can not get in to the latex mode. When I type $$ nothing happens.
There is obviously something I misunderstood.- Sanchez
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 :)
M
- Kaz
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
I still couldn't figure out how to enable Latex feature. $$ does not seem to work for me.
Let's hope they start with separating $ Inline LaTeX Code $ from $$ Paragraph LaTeX Code $$.
It's something we have in any decent MarkDown Editor.Thank You.
Great feature! Thanks very much!
