LaTeX plugin for Vim

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https://vimeo.com/43816939

 

The Pitch

I am a PhD student of Mathematics and the only developer of this project. Many mathematicians, physicist and other scholar scientists  are using LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/) to write their scientific papers, seminar presentations and conference posters.  LaTeX is markup language (like html), though more advanced. Writing in plain LaTeX is usually quite demanding. This project aim is to build and develop a plugin for Vim editor (which is a famous programmable editor used by programmers and scholars: http://www.vim.org). This includes shortcuts, compilation procedures and other convenient scripts to make writing LaTeX files more easy and straightforward. Vim is one of the most advanced editors picked up by many professionals since it provides fast way of editing plain text files (like LaTeX or programming source code).

 

Impact

We want to maintain and develop a tool for scientific community for easier writing scientific papers using LaTeX typesetting system within Vim editor.  The Vim editor is distributed under Vim charity licence (which is compatible with GNU GPL Free Software Foundation Licence) and its is freely available from http://www.vim.org . The plugin licence is GPL and it is and will be freely available (from http://atp-vim.sourceforge.net/). At the time the Plugin works under Linux and MacOs and one of the goals is to make it work under MS Windows as well. As to give you the size of the project: the plugin has now around 22 000 words (this is as much as my ~100page PhD thesis and as much as my friends novel!).

 

What We Need & What You Get

I need money for hardware, a laptop with MS Windows, and a better internet conection. I really need it since my current laptop is already dying, the laptop's battery is not working at all so I cannot work when I move around (which I do a lot since I have 40min train ride from my home to my work) and I have no access to MS Window system. The maintenance of the project takes time (since its size is as big as my PhD!).  I ask for 1100 USD which is not that much if you consider that the project is already developed for over 2 years almost without any funding. 

The plugin has the highest average score (so called karma points) at http://www.vim.org and is one of the most downloaded LaTeX plugins for Vim with a constantly growing community of users.