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alabid / flylatex

FlyLatex: A Realtime Collaborative Environment (with a concurrent editor) in node-js.
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Making this useful #14

Closed driest closed 11 years ago

driest commented 11 years ago

I think this could be a great tool but it is missing about 99% of the features one would use in a latex editor and thus is not of any use yet. What is an absolute must in my opinion:

Without these features, it is impossible to create any useful document and thus I can't even consider giving it a shot, even if i want it so badly that i would give up nice features of my current editor, for example:

Furthermore the UI is a total waste of screen space. on my 27" monitor about 30% of the screen is actually used, the remainder is just blank or useless clutter [1].

What would also be a very useful feature in this context would be a review system, that allows annotations etc. This would be a killer feature for this tool, as it is pretty easy to implement in this context but hasn't been done right for the last decades in all other tools (look at evince horrible pdf annotations for example).

[1] http://www.abload.de/img/flylatexh7be1.png

alabid commented 11 years ago

Hi driest,

Thanks for taking the time to fill this issue. There was a similar github issue regarding the addition of graphics and .bib inclusion. I'll work on this for the next version of FlyLatex. Also, the "killer" features you listed are also important.