Verbosus is a browser-based

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which allows a user to create and handle LaTeX projects in a browser. The graphical user interface (

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) does deliberately not resemble non-browser-based Editors such as

TeXworks TeXworks is free and open-source application software, available for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is a Qt-based graphical user interface to the TeX typesetting system and its LaTeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX extensions. TeXworks is targeted at direct ge ...

. It was designed to function and being used in a browser. Verbosus requires no installation of any software packages like

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, etc. As it is the case in other non-browser-based Latex tools a

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-Viewer is integrated which allows to generate a .pdf out of the Latex-Code. A preview is displayed on the side of the Latex Code. Additionally, the editor supports

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which increases the readability as well as

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. The connection between the

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and

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is secured by using the

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protocol which provides encryption and secure identification of the server.

Technology

The

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side of Verbosus was developed entirely in

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. In addition, it uses the

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for server communication. The integrated approach of using JavaScript-On-Demand allows the (for the user transparent) reloading of contents without the need to reload the whole page. Since JavaScript is used as the core-technology no additional plug-in (like

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, etc.) is required.

Mobile platforms

VerbTeX is an application for Android,

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and

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that uses the interface of Verbosus to synchronize data and generate the PDF from LaTeX code. Since version 3.4 there exists a native Android App called Anoc which is an Octave editor that also uses the interface of Verbosus to generate the result and create plots.

Collaboration

Verbosus supports simultaneous,

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editing of the same project by different users. A built-in tool that implements the

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-algorithm displays conflicting changes and allows a user to resolve conflicts after deciding which version is the correct one.

References

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Technology

Mobile platforms

Collaboration

See also

References