sharelatex ....makes them learn latex, because they can see the output and
the input...
also they can play with lots of examples....
2015-05-18 9:57 GMT-05:00 Thomas, Jens <jens.tho...@liverpool.ac.uk>:
> Hi Randy,
>
> It's not ideal, but until the bug gets fixed or there's a more elegant
> solution, could you just set up your own autosave?
>
> It'd mean opening a terminal and running a command before starting, but if
> you had a little script like the below running while you were working you'd
> at least ensure you wouldn't lose too much work if something crashed:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> [[ $# -ne 1 ]] && echo "Usage: $0 <path_to_file>" && exit 1
> while true;
> do
> cp $1 ${1}.bak
> sleep 60
> done
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jens
>
> ________________________________________
> From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Randy Read
> [rj...@cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: 18 May 2015 09:10
> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac
>
> Rather off-topic, but maybe someone on the list has found a way to work
> around this!
>
> There’s a problem with the Equation Editor in Office 2011 for Mac (i.e.
> the one that is based on a stripped-down version of MathType, which you get
> with Insert->Object->Microsoft Equation). You can insert an equation,
> re-open it and edit it several times, and then suddenly (and seemingly
> randomly) the equation object will be replaced by a picture showing the
> equation, which can no longer be edited. I’m writing a rather
> equation-heavy paper at the moment, and this is driving me crazy.
>
> This seems to be a known bug, which has existed from the release of Office
> 2011. Apparently it happens, unpredictably, when an AutoSave copy of the
> document is saved, so you can avoid it by turning off the AutoSave
> feature. The last time this drove me crazy, several years ago, I did try
> turning off AutoSave. For a while, I was very good about manually saving
> frequently, but I got into bad habits and eventually Word crashed after I
> had worked for several hours on a grant proposal without manually saving.
> So I turned AutoSave back on.
>
> At the moment, the least-bad solution seems to be to turn off AutoSave
> while I’m working on a document with lots of equations and then (hopefully)
> remember to turn it back on after that document is finished. But it would
> be great if someone has come up with a better cure for this problem.
>
> No doubt someone will suggest switching from Word to LaTeX, but I need to
> be able to collaborate on paper-writing, and even though I might be willing
> to invest the effort in learning LaTeX, I can’t really expect that of my
> collaborators. Most people in our field do use Microsoft Word, regardless
> of its failings. I’ve also tried using the professional version of
> MathType, but that requires your collaborators to install it as well — and
> I don’t think that cured the equation to picture problem anyway.
>
> Thanks!
>
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