Personally I just can't get used to using a slow web app. I much prefer working in a native editor or IDE (like TeXStudio). I still use Sharelatex in a pinch, when I'm another machine or something, but I breathe a sigh of relief when I'm back on a native app.
One of my favourite feature of Overleaf (another cloud LaTeX Editor) is that I can use git to work on my cloud project on my local machine. It seems to me the best of both worlds.
I didn't know that! That does seem like a sweet feature. I'll try it out next time I need to use these services.
You can also sync to github with ShareLaTeX, so this workflow would work too.
Thanks, you would be surprised what a big difference it makes when we hear nice things about ShareLaTeX. (I am a ShareLaTeX person)
You are doing great work.
But what I cannot understand is, how you still recommend stuff like $$ in a new beginners guide in 2017.
I had several moments in this tutorial where I thought: Oh, god. This got deprecated 20 years ago.
Re:First introduction to LaTeX
by thetwentyone on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:47PM
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FWIW, it's not just ShareLaTeX... I learned LaTeX a few years ago and through the tutorials and resources I used I learned the `$$` syntax. I'm a very infrequent user, but this is the first I've heard that it was depreciated at all, let alone 20 years ago.
I do support OP's thoughts that a 'modern' LaTeX solution like ShareLaTeX should encourage best practices though.
Out of curiosity, what should I use instead? And what are some tutorials that promote more modern techniques?
Re:First introduction to LaTeX
by ajholyoake on Monday May 01, 2017 @05:08PM
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\begin{equation} ... \end{equation}. Finding modern resources to learn LaTeX (and indeed TeX for macros etc) has been a perennial difficulty for me!
Re:First introduction to LaTeX
by occamrazor on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:17AM
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Or \[ ... \] for unnumbered equations.
I would use
\begin{equation*}
...
\end{equation*}
It's true, finding modern LaTeX tutorials is even harder that modern c++. It shares many of the same problems.
We put together a LaTeX course (in german) for physics student every year and keep it up to date with best practices as much as possible: http://toolbox.pep-dortmund.org/files/archive/latest/latex.p...
Seeng the joy with LaTeX:
LaTeX users significantly more often reported to enjoy
their work with their respective software than Word
users (t (36.27) = -3.23, p <. 01).
You are not alone. :-)
Agreed. I just finished a paper on ShareLaTeX today. Absolutely love it.
Re:First introduction to LaTeX
by partycoder on Sunday April 30, 2017 @06:01PM
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Looks great. I don't publish but use LaTeX for presentations (with beamer), with LaTeXila. Do you recomend ShareLaTeX for that use case as well?
Beamer works just fine on shareLaTeX. I've never had a problem.
Another unaffiliated happy customer here, ShareLaTeX is awesome.
(I sound like a shill, but check my comment history — I'm not affiliated with them. Just a happy customer.)