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Any opinions of collaborative LaTeX tools/services? I'm investigating Overleaf/ShareLateX, Authorea, Papeeria, SciDock, etc. I'd be curious to hear about anyone's experiences.

Dr. Björk Ψ @drbjork

@jc My experience is that + beats for academic writing any day… I have tried Authorea, and I like the possibility to link it to other git repositories – but they don't support pandoc…

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@drbjork Thanks, I have some people that specifically need LaTeX support but it's good to be aware of other techniques!

@jc I'd start with Authorea, since that is a service specifically aimed towards academic writing. And the possibility to link other git repositories makes offline writing in your favourite editor possible.

@drbjork @jc Tried both Authorea and Overleaf. I like the first more, but for pure LaTex Overleaf is probably better.

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So far, my team has not needed anything more complicated that git. However, typically no more than say three people are working on a single document simultaneously.

@jaranta @drbjork in your use, did you by any chance try their journal submission integrations?

@jc @drbjork I didn't, because they didn't include any of the journals I publish in. Having a direct submission from the writing platform does sound really useful.

@drbjork
Overleaf has good git integration as well. This is one reason I like it: I can keep my familiar emacs-based workflow and collaborate with others who prefer the web interface.
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One thing I'd really like to see in both is support. Right now my solution is to generate tables and plots in R locally and export them to files that are included in the document. and offline workflow make this process fairly smooth, but it would be slicker still if the analysis could be rerun in , especially for co-authors who are not comfortable with using git.

@hazybluedot @drbjork Interesting, I just searched on their site and they say that they're working on making R code executable overleaf.com/help/71-how-do-i-