Papeeria: cloud LaTeX editor and IDE for scientific work
in One line: it advertised Paperie, an online service to prepare documents in LaTeX. To go to papeeria.com.
If you are a student, you probably either already writing coursework or diploma, or seriously thinking about it. If you also learn in technical College and in your work a lot of formulas and other netext, you might be thinking about what to write in LibreOffice/Word or in LaTeX. And perhaps, from the use of LaTeX stops you only that Word that he, at hand, take it and write latex but have yet to install, worry about the almost inevitable pitfalls and then another, staring at the white sheet and think where to start. Here's something we want to help. As well as those who want to conduct their research from any location where there is Internet.
For everyone else: if you don't know what is latex, it is recommended to Google it (you can start, for example, here). If you know something and just want potrollit on the topic of latex vs word, look for yourself, please, another clearing. We thank you very much.
Briefly about the team: in the development of actively engaged two men, both of faculty of mathematics and mechanics St. Petersburg state University, which we use as a testing ground.
We do a sort of cloud IDE for scientific work (see details in next section). But in scientific work the main result is the text of an article or a diploma, we started with the LaTeX editor. Here's a picture.
Do not need to download a Tex distribution and configure it. Go to papeeria.com from your favorite browser (we recommend Chrome or Firefox), sign up Google account or Facebook, take a look at the demo document, and then enter and compile your own hello world.
We have supported XeTeX and PDFLaTeX. Pictures, bibtex, tikz, beamer, listings, it all works.
The result of this compilation is usually a PDF document, and if it happens, we'll try to show next to your original text. If there were any compilation errors, we will examine the error log will show you read the messages in the error bars and the link will take you from communication to the line in which the error is detected.
For those who are afraid of a clean slate, we have several templates full documents. There is a pattern of degree/coursework requirements the Department of mathematics and mechanics St. Petersburg state University, with formulas, pictures and references. There is a template for beamer presentations. Is there a resume template, approved by the best HR'AMI Saint-Petersburg :)
Little who writes the articles alone. Supervisor sometimes I want to look at the text and comment, you may want to ask somebody to do proofreading, and finally, you just may be co-authors. It would be great if you could co-edit a text in the same way as in Google Docs, but so far we have no such possibility. But there is a possibility to give access on "read and compile" and at least your colleagues will be able to see your text and give you their comments.
We do not tie you to the cloud. You can at any time to download your project as a ZIP archive and work on it offline. You can conversely, to upload a ZIP with an existing project and continue to work on it in the cloud.
All we have at the moment, is available and will be provided free of charge. We are certainly not the good fairy with a bag of gold. The compilation is worth the money, and we will do the paid services, but the basic functionality is sufficient for writing of the diploma, will remain free.
The service was opened in February, and since then we have dozens of users who are gaining from us term papers and diplomas, and as far as we know, they are happy. Couple of times there were glitches that were fixed quickly and without data loss. However, Papiria formally is in the alpha stage, so adventures are possible. However, we will do everything to not have them.
We actively use our own product: programmer #0 beamer makes presentations for his lectures, and programmer #1 is gaining a thesis.
Let me also remind you that the service we do not tie. Trust us or not is up to you.
We have competitors and we're not afraid to talk about them. First and foremost is a sharelatex.com and writelatex.com. This is a good and interesting products that were born much earlier than Papiria, and functionality they have in some places are richer.
We compete with them in the field of LaTeX typesetting, but our plans go further. Our dream — moving to online everything that is connected with the scientific work, and it's not just text. This graphs the results of the experiments (that now makes gnuplot, matlab, R, or simply Excel). It is the job assessors on the assessment of the obtained results (correctly recognized the image in this picture, it's really a human head, not a dog?). This is actually the start of experimental computation, especially on large data. This is an automated search of relevant studies and conferences. Perhaps something else that we don't know.
Tweet the latest news and announcements about fucapo: twitter.com/papeeria
In Google+ news more in detail and with pictures: plus.google.com/114845278978846632632/posts
In the interface of Papyrii loose button Feedback, it is possible to report any bug or to suggest an idea.
You can write on mail papeeria-feedback@bardsoftware.com but as long as the discussion falls into a discussion of a few interesting particulars, we prefer to conduct it openly.
Have fun, enjoy and let us know about the issues or rather achievements. It is important for us to know about something, and about something else.
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Introduction
If you are a student, you probably either already writing coursework or diploma, or seriously thinking about it. If you also learn in technical College and in your work a lot of formulas and other netext, you might be thinking about what to write in LibreOffice/Word or in LaTeX. And perhaps, from the use of LaTeX stops you only that Word that he, at hand, take it and write latex but have yet to install, worry about the almost inevitable pitfalls and then another, staring at the white sheet and think where to start. Here's something we want to help. As well as those who want to conduct their research from any location where there is Internet.
For everyone else: if you don't know what is latex, it is recommended to Google it (you can start, for example, here). If you know something and just want potrollit on the topic of latex vs word, look for yourself, please, another clearing. We thank you very much.
Briefly about the team: in the development of actively engaged two men, both of faculty of mathematics and mechanics St. Petersburg state University, which we use as a testing ground.
What we have
We do a sort of cloud IDE for scientific work (see details in next section). But in scientific work the main result is the text of an article or a diploma, we started with the LaTeX editor. Here's a picture.
Online editor
Do not need to download a Tex distribution and configure it. Go to papeeria.com from your favorite browser (we recommend Chrome or Firefox), sign up Google account or Facebook, take a look at the demo document, and then enter and compile your own hello world.
Template hi LaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}
\begin{document}
Hello \LaTeX!
\end{document}
We have supported XeTeX and PDFLaTeX. Pictures, bibtex, tikz, beamer, listings, it all works.
PDF Viewer and error navigation
The result of this compilation is usually a PDF document, and if it happens, we'll try to show next to your original text. If there were any compilation errors, we will examine the error log will show you read the messages in the error bars and the link will take you from communication to the line in which the error is detected.
Templates
For those who are afraid of a clean slate, we have several templates full documents. There is a pattern of degree/coursework requirements the Department of mathematics and mechanics St. Petersburg state University, with formulas, pictures and references. There is a template for beamer presentations. Is there a resume template, approved by the best HR'AMI Saint-Petersburg :)
collaboration
Little who writes the articles alone. Supervisor sometimes I want to look at the text and comment, you may want to ask somebody to do proofreading, and finally, you just may be co-authors. It would be great if you could co-edit a text in the same way as in Google Docs, but so far we have no such possibility. But there is a possibility to give access on "read and compile" and at least your colleagues will be able to see your text and give you their comments.
Import and export projects
We do not tie you to the cloud. You can at any time to download your project as a ZIP archive and work on it offline. You can conversely, to upload a ZIP with an existing project and continue to work on it in the cloud.
How much it costs and whether it can trust
All we have at the moment, is available and will be provided free of charge. We are certainly not the good fairy with a bag of gold. The compilation is worth the money, and we will do the paid services, but the basic functionality is sufficient for writing of the diploma, will remain free.
The service was opened in February, and since then we have dozens of users who are gaining from us term papers and diplomas, and as far as we know, they are happy. Couple of times there were glitches that were fixed quickly and without data loss. However, Papiria formally is in the alpha stage, so adventures are possible. However, we will do everything to not have them.
We actively use our own product: programmer #0 beamer makes presentations for his lectures, and programmer #1 is gaining a thesis.
How does the presentation in LaTeX
Let me also remind you that the service we do not tie. Trust us or not is up to you.
Our competitors and our plans
We have competitors and we're not afraid to talk about them. First and foremost is a sharelatex.com and writelatex.com. This is a good and interesting products that were born much earlier than Papiria, and functionality they have in some places are richer.
We compete with them in the field of LaTeX typesetting, but our plans go further. Our dream — moving to online everything that is connected with the scientific work, and it's not just text. This graphs the results of the experiments (that now makes gnuplot, matlab, R, or simply Excel). It is the job assessors on the assessment of the obtained results (correctly recognized the image in this picture, it's really a human head, not a dog?). This is actually the start of experimental computation, especially on large data. This is an automated search of relevant studies and conferences. Perhaps something else that we don't know.
Our contacts
Tweet the latest news and announcements about fucapo: twitter.com/papeeria
In Google+ news more in detail and with pictures: plus.google.com/114845278978846632632/posts
In the interface of Papyrii loose button Feedback, it is possible to report any bug or to suggest an idea.
You can write on mail papeeria-feedback@bardsoftware.com but as long as the discussion falls into a discussion of a few interesting particulars, we prefer to conduct it openly.
Have fun, enjoy and let us know about the issues or rather achievements. It is important for us to know about something, and about something else.
