<story><title>ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)</title><url>http://scribtex.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpallen</author><text>Hi, I&apos;m the creator of ScribTeX. I&apos;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&apos;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!)&lt;p&gt;Thank you for all the positive comments, they really mean a lot. The constructive feedback from HN is excellent as always.&lt;p&gt;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&apos;s just a textbox with syntax highlighting, but I&apos;m working on something to rival the functionality of a desktop editor.
* Overall design, in particular the splash page and information pages&lt;p&gt;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.</text></comment>
<story><title>ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)</title><url>http://scribtex.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CoffeeDregs</author><text>That&apos;s just really nice.&lt;p&gt;I used LaTeX for two theses and loved it.  It was very freeing to just worry about content and not about layout.  When I use Word, I constantly fiddle with styling and with Word&apos;s occasional bizarre behavior (delete a word and the next paragraph becomes bold... ?!).  With LaTeX, I spent an hour up front defining styles and a few minutes toward the end adjusting styles, but otherwise just wrote content (in vim!).  I don&apos;t think I really ever ran into &quot;OMFG, what is it doing?!&quot; situations.&lt;p&gt;Okay, so the perfect scenario goes: ScribTex does well; ScribTex gets bought by Google; Google Docs adds Tex documents!</text></comment>