Web-based Document Editor?

[fikran@lemm.ee]

[just_another_person@lemmy.world]

[hawke@lemmy.world]

[lodra@programming.dev]

There’s cryptpad though I don’t have a clue how complicated it is to manage. But it’s a decent user experience.

[glitterkoe@lemmy.world]

WYSIWYG or is typesetting an option? I can highly recommend Typst over at https://typst.app

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

Why not libreoffice

[dirk@lemmy.ml]

So, LibreOffice can be used over the Internet in a web browser?

[tja@sh.itjust.works]

Okay, what would be your alternative?

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/libreoffice

I believe so.

[truthfultemporarily@feddit.org]

Nextcloud has collabora integrated.

[xanza@lemm.ee]

Cryptpad is basically a frontend to ONLYOFFICE web. It's nice, but ONLYOFFICE requires quite a bit of system resources because its java based. As an alternative, I highly recommend WPS Office instead. Significantly more lightweight.

[dirk@lemmy.ml]

Ah, I see. Not as native web application, though.

They’re using Alpine Linux, install X and Openbox and Xvnc and serve KasmVNC via Nginx and connect via KasmVNC to that X instance. LibreOffice is started in fullscreen and looks like a slightly blurry web application.

But in reality it is just a regular desktop installation with some extra things.

@[email protected], maybe this is a solution? I wouldn’t recommend it because it’s not really a web-based document editor.

[povoq@slrpnk.net]

OnlyOffice is not the unmaintained OpenOffice.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

Thanks for the correction

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

Oh that looks horrible, never mind!

[hawke@lemmy.world]

I’m not a huge fan of Google as a company, but Google Docs seems to be the first and only one that actually put some new thought into how to organize their toolbar, so that’s my go-to.

[hawke@lemmy.world]

Moving this to a top-level comment.

Overleaf is fantastic, as long as you are okay with non-WYSIWYG document editing and learning some LaTeX.

Typst is also worth looking at, as a similar concept. It uses a very different language than LaTeX, but feels more in touch with modern sensibilities.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

I use Collabora CODE, which is an online version of LibreOffice. I don't know a ton about the technical details, but I'm pretty sure it does server side rendering.

Here's a guide to configure it with Nextcloud.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

i don't know much about custom fonts, but there are two main options for self-hosted "word" replacements:

• Collabora CODE - LibreOffice wrapped up as a web application
• OnlyOffice

I use Collabora with Nextcloud (hence the link).

[dirk@lemmy.ml]

Usually you just see LibreOffice and nothing else, so it’s fine, I guess. Not a web-based editor, but usable.