Online LaTeX Papeeria Editor: Results of the Year and New Year's Gifts

In early May, we told you about our online LaTeX editor. Then it was in the alpha version, we watched with some anxiety the habraeffect, were proud that we stood it with dignity and thought, in what form we will begin the new school year. Six months have passed, and perhaps it's time to share the news, especially since we have them.
But first, briefly about gifts: we, in company with Santa Claus, conduct a New Year hackathon for real Tehnikov . Participate, win 1 year subscription!

From Alpha to Beta

We became so confident in the availability and reliability of the service that we changed the alpha status to beta . We make backups and are able to recover data from them, the compiler factory automatically scales when the load increases, and monitoring sends us SMS as soon as it sees something suspicious, and sends it again if it does not receive a response.

mobile version

If you are traveling in a subway car and you urgently need to edit the presentation, use the mobile version for smartphones and tablets. It is simpler than complete, but quite suitable for simple edits. One of us managed to make a business card on the iPhone on the way to the next startup party, send a PDF to a printing house near the place of action, and (most unbelievable) get the business cards printed right on time.

Collaborative editing

Often several people work on the text, and the possibility of co-editing is very useful. We are working on an implementation in the style of Google Docs (several cursors, real-time updates), but for now we have co-editing in the Wikipedia style: the one who edits will block the file, and the rest will see this file only for reading. Locks are obtained and removed automatically.

Projects

We removed the restriction “one project per user” and made projects of various degrees of publicity: open, private and archival. Open source projects are visible to everyone to read and compile, and you can create as many as you like. Here, admire, for example, a non-trivial poster (it is also on the right in the picture).

Private projects are visible only to their owner and to those to whom the owner has granted access and their number of private projects is limited by the tariff plan (yes, by the way, we have tariff plans, see below).

But we understand that the project will end sooner or later, will be submitted to the archive and may not be returned to it. Archival Projectswe also have. They cannot be edited or compiled, and the owner and invited collaborators can read them, like private ones. And the number of archival projects is not limited.

Any project to which you have read access can be copied to yourself in a couple of clicks and dubbed with a file.

All sorts of little things

Almost every week there are all sorts of necessary little things: wrapping lines, simple completion in the editor, saving the state of directories, and so on. Recently, for example, the first version of the hellish gramoteus , also known as spellchecker, appeared for English and Russian.

Patterns

We have a pack of ready-made templates . Those who write highly cited articles will probably find templates from ACM and Springer useful, and users will more easily like a minimal, working Cyrillic document or a pretty professional resume approved by the best HRs.

Subscription

And finally, we have paid tariffs and the first paid users. We, users, love and value them very much. Come!