Hi, I'm the creator of ScribTeX. I'm a regular reader of HN and it was great to see this on the front page this morning. Most of my effort is focused on the technical side of things and I've been relying on word of mouth for promotion. (Sorry to those of you who have been looking for something like this for a while!)
Thank you for all the positive comments, they really mean a lot. The constructive feedback from HN is excellent as always.
For the interested, here are some features I am working on at the moment:
* Better history navigation. The current implementation is quite flat and cumbersome.
* A much better editor. Currently it's just a textbox with syntax highlighting, but I'm working on something to rival the functionality of a desktop editor.
* Overall design, in particular the splash page and information pages
Push and pull access to the underlying git repository is currently a feature I am testing. Send me an email (james@scribtex.com) if you would like me to enable it for your account.
Perhaps this isn't in the right spirit, but because of Pandoc I've become wedded to writing in a mixture of markdown and latex (latex for the fiddly bits, markdown for everything else)... Is this (or something like it) something you might consider in the future? I work with many non-technical people and write collaboratively using this mixture on etherpads... A proper git history would be a very nice addition to our workflow.
An API that would allow for small snapshot images would be useful as well. Say for posting a formula blurb to a forum for instance, would be pretty handy as well.
Thank you for all the positive comments, they really mean a lot. The constructive feedback from HN is excellent as always.
For the interested, here are some features I am working on at the moment: * Better history navigation. The current implementation is quite flat and cumbersome. * A much better editor. Currently it's just a textbox with syntax highlighting, but I'm working on something to rival the functionality of a desktop editor. * Overall design, in particular the splash page and information pages
Push and pull access to the underlying git repository is currently a feature I am testing. Send me an email (james@scribtex.com) if you would like me to enable it for your account.