Google Updates Google Docs With 450 New Fonts, 60 New Templates And More

Re:Google Updates Google Docs With 450 New Fonts, 60 New Tem... by lolcraft on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:36PM (#3920743)

Well, at least users have to add them to the dropbox list manually. The cool thing of Google Docs, for me, was that it didn't allow many options, to avoid the mismash of informal, unchecked styles that happens in Word.

With this Office-ification of Docs I see a potential disruption. Maybe a LaTeX-like collaborative WYSIWYG editor? That is, one that has only four or five possible document types, and is very opinionated and consistent in how the document is styled. Like TeXmacs, but online and simpler.

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Re:Google Updates Google Docs With 450 New Fonts, 60 New Tem... by diffeomorph on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @06:50PM (#3921579)

I've considered writing something similar but I wasn't sure if there'd be any demand. I want an online collaborative editor whose paradigm is more LaTeX than Word. My original motivation was for collaborative academic writing in my old lab, but I think it could be useful for a broader technical audience, as well.

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Re:Google Updates Google Docs With 450 New Fonts, 60 New Tem... by greeneggs on Thursday May 03, 2012 @03:13AM (#3922743)

There is sharelatex.com for this, but I think using Google Docs with Google Drive and compiling the LaTeX locally might be a better solution.

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