Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

I find an online tool for formatting LaTex documents

I once wrote a book using LaTex – the electronic typesetting system. LaTex allows you to do things that you cannot do with just about anything else. The result is a document with an excellent, professional appearance – much better than anything MS Word or others can do. For everything LaTex and Tex, see The Tex User’s Group.

One problem with LaTex is that you have to install a lot of software on your computer and keep it up to date and update all the updates and so on. That is not simple.

I just found a website called write LaTex. It bills itself as the online collaborative LaTex Editor. It has some features that allow people to collaborate online much like Google Docs and others.

What I really like about write LaTex is that I can move my .tex files to it, and use it to format them into PDF. I no longer have to administer the tex software on my computer.

Granted, the audience for LaTex tools is small, but it is significant.