[OS X TeX] Fwd: A better word processor than Word, Google Docs, or LaTeX for writing research

[Alain Schremmer]

On May 12, 2015, at 9:36 AM, George Gratzer wrote:

> Is it really better?
>
> GG

Depends on what you want to do.

(1) Looks like it makes it easy to collaborate but it is probably too  
much for *my* students. (Maybe a "light" version?)

(2) You can paste Math Mode LaTeX but I don't know how far that goes:  
I tried a formula involving also a bit of straight LaTeX and it didn't  
like it (But then neither does MathJax). However,

\begin{align*}
x \xrightarrow{\hspace{5mm}JILL\hspace{5mm}} JILL(x)= \frac{2\sin{x}+5} 
{-5x^{3}+2\exp{x}}
\end{align*}

worked fine.

Regards
--schremmer

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>> From: Alberto Pepe <alberto.pepe at authorea.com>
>> Subject: A better word processor than Word, Google Docs, or LaTeX  
>> for writing research
>> Date: May 11, 2015 at 3:09:40 PM EDT
>> To: G. Grätzer <gratzer at me.com>
>> Reply-To: Alberto Pepe <alberto.pepe at authorea.com>
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>> Hi, my name is Alberto Pepe and I'm an Associate Research Scientist  
>> at Harvard University.
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>> As a working researcher, I find writing papers is often slow and  
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