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Hey, James from ShareLaTeX here. We’re very excited about what this means for ShareLaTeX and Overleaf! The blog post says most of what we wanted to say, but all four founders from ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are around this evening (we’re in the UK) to answer questions if you have any. Give us a little while to reply though, since we’re all trying to have dinner too! :)


I just did your survey, but forgot to mention a feature idea. I recently finished a typesetting a master thesis, which I converted with pandoc from docx to tex. Together with the Harvard Thesis template it was a bliss and took just ~6 hours to set the ~80 pages.

Maybe a document converting feature (via pandoc!?) would help the merged product :) (And I would totally pay for that :D)


Thanks for the suggestion! We have played around with pandoc as an option in the ShareLaTeX compiler, but we weren't able to get it working smoothly enough for us to be happy with it. But it's definitely on our radar.


CoCalc isn't so famous for latex editing, but it has a proper Linux terminal with pandoc. That allows you to automate some tasks, etc.


Which code editor are you going to keep? ShareLaTeX and Overleaf use different technology and look quite different.


The current plan is to base the new editor on the the ShareLaTeX editor, but bring in the good parts of Overleaf to it.


Hopefully vi-support, that's the feature that brought me to overleaf in the first place!


Vi support is same in both Ace used in ShareLaTex and CodeMirror used in Overleaf


Are you all looking into allowing the use of the editor offline and then syncing the changes when the user gets online?


Not as a direct product offering from us, but we want to make sure it's always easy to get your work in and out of Overleaf/ShareLaTeX, and work offline, via things like git, GitHub and Dropbox.




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