I tried a "\begin{equation}" pair to get a numbered equation and nothing happened.<p>I would say "Markdown editor with latex inline equations" instead of calling this a latex editor - the most basic latex syntax doesn't seem to work!<p>(also: Isn't $$ an out-of-line equation, rather than a \displaystyle-sized inline)
If you want to generate LaTeX from Markdown, you can use Pandoc. Pandoc has various extensions to regular Markdown (including inline math, tables, etc.), so this gives you some flexibility when producing more complicated types of documents. In fact, Pandoc converts from Markdown to LaTeX to PDF when you choose PDF as the output format.
This is the same approach we're using at Wikipendium[1] for math-heavy article editing - Markdown with inline LaTeX math segments edited in a CodeMirror editor. It's cool to see others tackling the same problems in similar ways.<p>We use Mathjax[2] for rendering LaTeX client side, but have run into some performance issues as the number of math segments increase on a single page. Paperman seems to be using something called MathQuill[3], has anyone here tried using it on large amounts of LaTeX math? KaTeX[4] is another possible alternative, and certainly the best I've tried in terms of performance, although it's still a little lacking in terms of symbol support.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.wikipendium.no/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikipendium.no/</a>
[2]: <a href="http://www.mathjax.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mathjax.org/</a>
[3]: <a href="http://mathquill.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mathquill.com/</a>
[4]: <a href="http://khan.github.io/KaTeX/" rel="nofollow">http://khan.github.io/KaTeX/</a>
Here's what I'd need as a minimum to make productive use of this:<p>* numbered list<p>* download LaTeX<p>What I'd consider paying for:<p>* a nice table editor - IMO this is the only case where it would make sense to divert from the text-input-only approach.<p>* Load LaTeX templates, have all of the common packages supported, so that I could just write papers online.<p>* Integration with DropBox and/or Google Drive
I wrote a kind of markdown to latex script to help me writing my thesis, based in previous versions of md2html.awk. It had some more features than Paperman, such as ((footnotes)), [[bib references]] and [(references to labels)]. It also supported several heading levels, an abstract at the beginning, and even had some support for images and tables.<p>It was never publicly released because, since it was for my personal use, required a serious amount of work to make it usable for more people and better (or at least some) documentation. Anyway, if somebody is interested, I have no problem sharing it.
I started using Latex with editors like this (sharelatex I think), but eventually, when my advisor said "latex is source code," I came to the realization that I should be writing in my text editor.<p>Now I do all latex writing in sublime or vim and have a build script to compile to Pdf and open it in Preview on the left side of my screen. Save, build, review. Just as fast as an online editor, no lockin, and a native feeling.
If you want authors to actually write (scientific) papers in this editor you'll need a lot more:<p><pre><code> * including figures, with captions
* tabels, with captions
* sections
* Something like the \ref{} command to refer to tables, figures, sections.
* Citations</code></pre>
Nice project. Are the source available ? It would be nice to use but I'd rather host/use it locally.<p>Besides I don't know which font (Symbola?) you use in the .pdf but it appears ugly (part of the 'o' is missing and it is overall not too easy to read) on my laptop running Ubuntu 14.10.
Those interested in a tool that lets you use your text editor with an auto-refreshed HTML view should check out Softcover (<a href="http://softcover.io/" rel="nofollow">http://softcover.io/</a>), which among other things is the build system used by the <i>Ruby on Rails Tutorial</i>.
The tagline is misleading. This is just a markdown editor with something like MathJax dropped in to do LaTeX-like equation rendering. Nevertheless, the live-editing and download PDF features are pretty cool. Nice work!
Nice demo. Hopefully the time will come when we will finally have a proper Latex editor that is easy to use and has an editor that makes it a joy to write with (think of iA Writer)