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FlyLatex: A Realtime Collaborative Environment (with a concurrent editor) in node-js.
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enhancement in new version #18

Closed Astalaseven closed 11 years ago

Astalaseven commented 11 years ago

Hi! I have read that you planned a new release of flylatex (https://github.com/alabid/flylatex/issues/2).

Can you give us more details about this new version? :) It's not a hurry, but it will help us to know what's useful to recode in our way, or wait until you release something better. I'm not an node/javascript developper, so I think it's better to work with someones' code that is well conceived than quick fix.

I already did some changes to create a fix directory for everyone who compiles a doc, and theirs works are saved with their name in their directory. It would be easier I think to later make a form used to download a zip of their project (if you have an idea of how to do so... I tried with express but without great results - error 404, 500). Same idea (and failure) to upload files, like .tex, images or whatever.

On your bugtracker, you say that flylatex can not use some packages ? How can it be so if you use pdflatex ? (I don't understand why your rendering with pdf.js don't work as the compilation runs well and firefox pdf viewer (pdf.js too) renders well :/)

It's also difficult to share a document with a person if we don't know his name : should it be possible to have a list of all persons who have created an account ?

I hope the new version will come soon! Already thanks for your great work :)

alabid commented 11 years ago

Hi!

New features: i) Support for additional latex packages (like amsmath, amsfonts, and so on). ii) Option to use clsi to compile latex docs. iii) Option to use latexmk instead of pdflatex.

Stay tuned!