Usage
The system can be used via the included LTC Editor or with Emacs.
LTC consists of a base system running under Java and the LaTeX editor specific user interface. We provide a Java application called LTC Editor that contains the base system as well as a simple text editor as the user interface. The main usage, although, is to run the base system as a server and have an editor-specific LTC implementation connect to the base system via XML-RPC on the localhost. Our first editor-specific implementation is the Emacs ltc-mode, which is a minor mode to the latex-mode.
Future implementations for popular LaTeX editors such as TeXShop and TeXWorks are planned or could be contributed by the community using the API of the base system.
Quick Start for Emacs
To run the base system, execute the installed JAR file in a terminal (if you want to see logging output). Or launch the JAR using a double-click to ignore the logging output.
$> java -jar LTC.jar [...] <date> | INFO: Started RPC server on port 7777.
Invoke M-x ltc-mode in Emacs on a version-controlled .tex file to turn on LTC.
Manual
The user manual contains more details on installation, configuration and usage as well as a tutorial chapter. It is available in these formats:
GitHub Tutorial
We have written a short tutorial on using GitHub for collaborative writing projects, which can provide the version control for LTC.