Guest blog post by Federico Gobbo
It was the year 2004 and I had just taken a big and compelling decision in my professional life: doing research in an academic setting. I had worked for three years in the Research & Development of Web 1.0 in different start-ups in Milan, Italy and after collaborations with local Universities I decided it was time for a change.
The latest set of upgrades to writeLaTeX include:
This is based on your feedback and comments -- for example, Vim & Emacs styles for the editor gathered 40 votes on our feedback forum.
The third part in our free online LaTeX course is now available! Originally presented at Bristol University by our very own Dr John Lees-Miller, the course includes a series of interactive exercises for you to complete online using writeLaTeX as you progress through the slides.
In these slides we go beyond using LaTeX for writing papers, and cover the following main topics:
and conclude with a brief look at spreadsheets with spreadtab.
We also begin here with a recap of the LaTeX basics, so if you haven't completed Parts 1 and 2 you can still work through these slides (although we recommend completing the whole course!).
This tweet by @arunsethuraman prompted many of you to share your experiences using LaTeX - in this blog post we've brought together a selection of our favourites to share!
If you were using writeLaTeX in 2012, you may recall that on Christmas Day we were featured in a review at MakeUseOf.com. It looks like we've been picked up by their radar again - writeLaTeX features on today's "Cool Websites and Tools" post!