What is publications.li?

publications.li is a portal dedicated to academic publications. It offers three services:

blue.publications.li: an open-source collaborative LateX web editor

Hi all, We are about to open-source the code of blue.publications.li. This would be the first real time collaborative LateX editor going open-source. It will be called \Blue (backslash-blue), the backslash being rooted in TeX. In short: – the code will be published with an Apache-like licence – the project will be hosted on Github, …

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The architecture of blue.publications.li

Hi all, you may wonder how blue.publications.li runs? Well it consists of two main pieces a software. The server side software is responsible of two things. First sharing the text changes in real-time between co-authors, this is done in Python using the excellent mobwrite. Second, it compiles the LaTeX documents, manages the paper’s figures and …

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Server Migration on on October 27, 2012

Hi all, publications.li has migrated from an Amazon EC2 server to OVH, a french hosting company on the rise. After a few days of stabilization, all services seem up and running again, in particular blue.publications.li, my.publications.li and git.publications.li. –Lucas and Martin

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Paper Templates in Blue.publications.li

Hi all, We just deployed a new version of blue.publications.li (version 0.4) which adds some bug fixes and improvements on the server side and a new interesting feature: when creating a paper, one can now select the template to use to customize the paper for a given conference. So you do not have to upload …

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