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DriveTeX

A cloud LaTeX editor. Live at drivetex.appspot.com. Inspired by LaTeX Lab by Bobby Soares.

User Manual

Right now, it's a little bit more difficult to get started with DriveTeX that it ought to be.

1. Go to drivetex.appspot.com. If this is your first visit, you'll be prompted to authorize DriveTeX to access Google Drive files that you specifically give permission to access.
2. Visit drive.google.com. (If you just authorized DriveTeX, you might have to reload.) Find a .tex file to edit, right click, "Open With" -> DriveTeX.
3. Your file opens up in the DriveTeX editor. You can make changes, save and generate a preview.

If you find that your situation doesn't work with DriveTeX (multiple source files, additional LaTeX plugins, etc.), let me know!

Getting started with development

One-time system setup

• Install npm
  • Windows or Mac: Download NodeJS
  • Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install npm
  • Depending on your system setup, you may want to reference this StackOverflow answer about installing NPM global packages without administrative priviledge and this one about node: command not found
• npm install -g bower grunt-cli http-server
• Install Google Cloud SDK (only needed for pushing to production)
• gcloud auth login
• gcloud config set project drivetex

Clean repo build

• npm install
• grunt cleanDeps
• grunt

Test locally

• cd public; http-server
• Visit http://localhost:8080/

Deploy to App Engine

• gcloud preview app deploy public/app.yaml --version=3 --promote

Open Source Credits

DriveTeX makes use of many high quality open source libraries, including:

• texlive.js (Many thanks to Manuel for his support!)
• Polymer
• CodeMirror

Disclaimers and Licensing

This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google. It is licensed under Apache 2.0; see the LICENSE file for full details.