Overleaf reducing compile timeout to 20 seconds

[hochleitner]

Overleaf has announced changes, that it will reduce the compile timeout to 20 seconds on the free plan: https://www.overleaf.com/blog/changes-to-free-compile-timeouts-and-servers

This will most likely not be enough to compile our tutorial document but it might also fail for a larger thesis.

I don't think that there is an obvious solution here, except going for a pro account or switching to a local setup.

We should however conduct some tests and add this circumstance to our README to make people aware that they could run into problems.

[imagingbook]

Yes, only tests will show. Hopefully the time reduction is compensated by the fact that "free users’ compiles are moving to faster servers" ...

[hochleitner]

Since it will still take a semester or more until we get reliable feedback from students and advisors if this causes any noticeable impact, I will add a short paragraph about Overleaf and the possible implications of the restrictions of the free version in Appendix A and the README.md in this repository.

[imagingbook]

Just saw the hints in https://t.ly/uvYt5 and got myself a free Overleaf PRO subscription through my IEEE Collabratec account ;-)
Since an IEEE student membership costs very little, this may be an option...

[hochleitner]

I opened the branch content-update and added a section to appendix A in commits 506a6df (DE) and 8f72ef8 (EN). I also removed TeXmaker as recommended software since its website hasn't been working properly recently. I added Visual Studio Code with the LaTeX Workshop Extension instead since this is favored by many people. I'll create a PR with more content updates soon.

[imagingbook]

IntelliJ with the TeXify IDEA plugin might be another option ...

[hochleitner]

IntelliJ with the TeXify IDEA plugin might be another option ...

Great, I'll add that, too. I think I'll also remove TeXnicCenter. The latest public release was over ten years ago. They did add a 2.03 alpha build some time last year, but it still seems like active development has been pretty much abandoned.