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Overleaf import-ability

Open pkill37 opened this issue 5 years ago • 8 comments

pkill37 avatar Aug 30 '18 21:08 pkill37

https://www.overleaf.com/help/216-how-does-overleaf-compile-my-project

pkill37 avatar Sep 03 '18 12:09 pkill37

I think we should reconsider this. Overleaf is increasingly more popular in the research community. Let's not be elitist and pretend everyone likes working at the CLI. It'd be a nice feature appreciated by most people.

Plus we're just talking about a single file, which seems to be the recommended way of configuring latexmk anyway. I dislike additional config files too, but there's a benefit in this case.

pkill37 avatar Sep 18 '18 13:09 pkill37

I suggest closing down this issue, since there is no real solution for this, besides sketchy hacks.

LudeeD avatar Feb 19 '19 16:02 LudeeD

Commit 12690780b61e8238de628ba3498689ff3230903c should add support for overleaf (please test).

The main issue we are faced with is that Overleaf v2 seems to have a bug with Portuguese and the ftmcount package (see https://github.com/nlct/fmtcount/issues/26).

Placing the file fc-portuges.def found in http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/macros/latex/contrib/fmtcount.tds.zip in the root directory of the project seems to solve the problem.

I'm accepting suggestions as to whether this file should or should not be included in the repository directly (simplifying others' lifes).

rj-jesus avatar Feb 19 '19 16:02 rj-jesus

Commit 1269078 should add support for overleaf (please test).

It seems to be working

About the other file, my vote is to leave it out of this repo and update the documentation about this

LudeeD avatar Feb 19 '19 17:02 LudeeD

Recently the NEEF - Núcleo de Estudantes de Engenharia Física [email protected] reached out to know more about this functionality and maybe do a workshop for them on how to do this.

How is the state on this project xD ?

LudeeD avatar Mar 10 '22 22:03 LudeeD

This project -i.e.- using the template with Overleaf? I just did a quick test and the instructions from https://github.com/detiuaveiro/ua-thesis-template#use-it-in-overleaf still seem to apply, with the caveat that the user needs to change the main document to matter.tex in Overleaf's settings, which we currently do not state.

It would perhaps be easier if we (or NEEF) created a template based on this repo on Overleaf so users could use/open it directly.

P.S. I'm under the impression the issue with ftmcount no longer applies.

rj-jesus avatar Mar 11 '22 15:03 rj-jesus

Sorry to jump in the thread. I believe I opened #28 without checking this issue.

I just did a quick test and the instructions from https://github.com/detiuaveiro/ua-thesis-template#use-it-in-overleaf still seem to apply, with the caveat that the user needs to change the main document to matter.tex in Overleaf's settings, which we currently do not state.

Yes, that's true.

It would perhaps be easier if we (or NEEF) created a template based on this repo on Overleaf so users could use/open it directly.

In April, after being contacted by NEEF too, I took time to upload the latest changes to the template to Overleaf so it can be easily used by colleagues from other departments. This has been documented in #28 too. In the future, all that is needed is to request the Overleaf team to update the template.

To promote a better track of updates across forks, I believe this repo should be transformed into a template repo. It simplifies for people working on their documents to update their documents with the latest changes to the upstream project.

Jpfonseca avatar Jun 29 '22 00:06 Jpfonseca