We're on the same wavelength here. This is exactly the problem I'm trying to tackle with Penflip (https://www.penflip.com/).
- Began as a fork of Gitlab
- Hosts public and private writing projects that are backed by git repos
- Git repos allow for local editing, remote access, and easy collaboration
- In-browser markdown editor with syntax highlighting
- MathJax support (as of yesterday - still testing and tweaking)
- Extended markdown support for tables, footnotes, etc
- One-click downloads in PDF / HTML / ePub / Word format
Originally, Penflip was geared towards writers, but I am seeing an increased demand for scientific and academic uses. I'm exploring this right now.
EDIT: wow, just realized you're the one behind mathdown.net, which I recently discovered while researching MathJax. Excellent work!
It would be cool if the free tier included one private project, so you could test it without making a public project full of typical test blathering. (I see the Discover page lists a few projects that are clearly only testing.)
The git import/export is very nice but looks a bit magicky -- am I right in thinking text files called anything other than document.txt will be silently ignored? I was looking at this with a view to working out how to import existing documents, ideally with history: what's the best workflow for that?
A serif font option in the editor/preview would be welcome.
Looking forward to trying this for something more substantial, though. Nice.
Penflip looks interesting! I'll have to play with the math jax options, but do you have any examples of it being used with figures and equations? Any plans for reference management?
EDIT: wow, just realized you're the one behind mathdown.net, which I recently discovered while researching MathJax. Excellent work!