Awesome to see that they have grown so much. I've used ShareLaTeX since 2013 and really love it. The sharing functions are great, no need to install and manage a LaTeX installation and all plugins is just awesome. Their support pages are awesome also, whenever I google for stuff like "center align image latex" it's either some StackExchange page or their support page that's the top results.<p>Can't recommend it enough!
I used MiKTeX LaTeX for my thesis, so I had to learn - as many other PhD candidates - some of the troubles with this typesetting system the hard way.<p>I had a quick look at ShareLateX in order to help my sister with her latex experience. While I can not say anything about larger documents, the ease of DVI previewing in the browser, etc, it for sure gave me the opportunity to debug some of her code in small pieces, test out LaTeX example code, and share the results with my sister.<p>Nice project - best of luck and keep up the good work!<p>Edit: for typos
I've used this service a few times and have to say it's fantastic. Compared to setting up LaTeX on a mac to manipulate a few docs every now and then, it's a dream.
I'm using sharelatex since about 4 years for all my papers and even my PhD thesis. It's really convenient when writing with many co-authors.<p>The way we pay practically $0 for infinity authors and projects is, we have only one payed account and this one invites everyone else.<p>One thing I miss is the annotation feature google-docs provides. However, the /todo packages is kinda helpful.
LaTeX is not going anywhere, but for 90% of everyday typeset doc creation (letters, articles, etc) - groff / troff is often a superior choice.<p>Its included in nearly every *nix system and generally syntax is much easier to handle (a doc with no syntax embedded still produces reasonable results).<p>Notwithstanding the wonderful 'mom' package, its shame development has seemed to dry up.
Question for jpallen if you're still reading - do you plan to support unicode fonts? I write some documents using the Sanskrit2003 font and compile them with xelatex locally. Wondering if sharelatex plans to support non-commercial unicode fonts?