@tomminieminen #Overleaf on verkkoselaimessa käytettävä ohjelmisto, jolla voi tehdä ja esikatsella LaTeX-dokumentteja. Eräät tuntemani yliopistomatemaatikot käyttävät sitä ahkerasti, ja Helsingin yliopisto tietääkseni maksaa henkilökunnalle tilauksen.
It's funny to me that many graduate students these days don't realize that you can actually install LaTeX on your own computer. The amazing impact of #overleaf. Grad students don't know how good they've got it.
Sadly though, development on mainstream LaTeX has stagnated, and it's already showing its age (lack of accessible PDF's, etc.). How long until it has to be abandoned? Or maybe it will hang around forever for a small FORTRAN-like community?
Overleaf's support replied this morning that they'd just pushed an update that includes the new Error Assist in the same toggle that controls the Writefull integration. The toggle is on the account settings page under the password settings.
Has anyone figured out how to turn off this stupid AI error assist that Overleaf added? On top of it breaking my client agreements if I accidently click it, it's a horrible waste of screen real estate. Half of the error log is now taken up by this.
Ich durfte heute vor unserem Gremium Softwarebeschaffung an der #OVGU ein kleines Plädoyer zu den Vorzügen von #TeXLaTeX als Textsatzsystem für das wissenschaftliche Schreiben und zur Notwendigkeit einer #Overleaf-Campuslizenz halten:
https://youtu.be/ObAKlUWmgjQ
FYI #Academics using #overleaf + git: there seems to be a problem where the cloned repo is different from the online version. At least we have two reproducible examples in my larger collab.
Online support contacted.
Be careful and check your text in case this is crucial!
[got confirmation from support that this is real - though and edge case - , they are aware + working on this to solve it asap.]
Tor users are no longer allowed to collaborate in scientific research. #Overleaf has decided to push a 403 Forbidden to people on the Tor network.
'Typst' @typst@mastodon.social
The love-child of #LaTeX and #Markdown - open-source, runs locally in VSCode(-ium) etc. and has a webapp similar to #Overleaf
https://github.com/typst/typst
https://typst.app/
Very good explainer and overview: https://blog.jreyesr.com/posts/typst/
I've been using it to create two presentations last week & am very impressed (see reply).
#UsefulTools #DHsHelper #AcademicTools @typst@a.gup.pe
I know everyone loves their #Overleaf, but the recent outage might be a good reminder to reconsider if outsourcing something as inherently local as plain-text editing to a cloud-only service is actually a good idea.
Yikes, #Overleaf added an AI-based language checker #Writefull which essentially wants to make the language more complicated and vague.
Also, I'm already setting up the #overleaf project for the research report on this study. Because this way I have a place where I can drop all my notes and ideas and thoughts already. And I was able to take the time and figure out some LaTeX macros that I'll use for writing.
Whoop whoop!
#pascodaGoDrrr
Okay, I did a thing. Ich habe eine Anleitung geschrieben, wie man Overleaf (sharelatex) ohne Docker aufsetzen und betreiben kann, nachdem es das noch nicht gab.
Viel Spaß damit, vielleicht hilft es ja wem.
https://gist.github.com/Wurzelmann/b6e4628a964cd450f5b34b7ace622264
> Also facing the issue that #overleaf users ignore errors and expect everything to be fine. Really would love have that changed as well.
YES! For example, something like automatic renaming `main.pdf` into `error-main.pdf` and a fat red diagonal banner: “There are issues to be fixed!”, across the preview of each page would be a good step.
Getting ready for an #ACM publication on #Overleaf? Switch to the latest #TeXLive 2024 for a more recent version of ACM's acmart document class, now available! #AcademicWriting #TeXLaTeX
In the first talk @norbu talked about #TeXLive at #arxiv giving insights on the production and submission process. Facing a bunch of issues probably everyone has who tries to work with author submissions.
Also facing the issue that #overleaf users ignore errors and expect everything to be fine. Really would love have that changed as well.
I wish #OverLeaf had an Android app so I could write with a keyboard on my tablet - it's so much less distracting than a computer.
Wow, disappointed that #Overleaf has added #LLM integration into their application. I don't know why I'm surprised, but it really confuses me that everyone is jumping on this bandwagon.
(I don't think all LLM usage is bad, to be clear; I just feel like the expectations and hype are not aligned with their sensible application.)
That's okay #Overleaf, I didn't wake up super early on a weekend to finish working on this grant anyway. Go ahead and go offline right now. I'll just sit here when I could be sleeping.
