Friday, November 18, 2016

Papeeria News, Nov 18: updated Plot Builder

TL;DR: edit plot data and styles in a convenient table interface; use Plotly or Gnuplot to build plots

Updated Plot UI

We have upgraded the user interface of our Plot Builder. The builder has been somewhat hidden until today; now it goes much more visible with rich UI for editing data files and for tuning plot appearance. Check out the new "Table" tab in the editor when you open csv files!

All plots from the project are easily accessible from the new Plots pane. You can scan through the produced images, open Plot Builder from the Plots pane or create new plot files. 

Plot Builder UI, Plots Pane and Viewer pane showing the compiled plot


Integration with Plotly

In addition to Gnuplot engine, those who are registered on great Plotly service can now use Plotly to build plots. Switch between Gnuplot and Plotly using "Build Plot" dropdown in the Plot Table UI.

Saving generated files to the project

Last, but not least: you can now save any file which appears in the preview pane into the project. Plots are saved automatically, and if you want to save a PDF with the compiled paper, you can do it with "Save" dropdown in the Viewer pane.

More docs are available on Papeeria Documentation pages.

Monday, November 7, 2016

Papeeria News, Nov 7: lualatex and bugfixes

TL;DR: you can now use LuaTeX engine

LuaTeX

LuaTeX is a TeX compiler which is capable of running Lua scripts in TeX documents. It might be handy in some use cases, e.g. for automated layout of trees or for building plots. Check out this project to see a couple of examples.

You can choose LuaLaTeX engine in the project settings or in the Compile dropdown. It is supported in both TeXLive 2015 and TeXLive 2016 distros.

Bugfixes

We have made autocomplete less obtrusive and fixed a few bugs. We also significantly improved typing Japanese using standard input methods in Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.