Online LaTex editor

I looked into using LaTeX in an online service once but my understanding was that LaTeX is difficult to serve as a service because there are several commands which allow arbitrary code execution. Is this whitelisting some of the syntax? How are they doing that?<p>(btw, if it turns out they aren&#x27;t please don&#x27;t comment here about it but instead report it to them at <a href="https://www.sharelatex.com/security" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sharelatex.com&#x2F;security</a> )

This is a new product from the people who made ScribTeX (<a href="http://www.scribtex.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribtex.com&#x2F;</a>).<p>ScribTeX helped me a lot a few years back when I had a conference paper due in a couple of days and only an old PowerPC machine at my disposal at home that had trouble running MacTeX (for reasons I had no time to fix). I ended up writing most of it in the browser. Then the killer feature of ScribTeX for me was that it didn&#x27;t require registration; you could use it from anywhere right away if you had your TeX files with you on a flash drive. It wasn&#x27;t that registering or logging in was hard, mind you, but not having to do it completely bypassed the mental barrier of entering your password in a potentially unsafe environment like a malware-infested university computer lab. Later you would be at a safer computer (e.g., your own), log in to ScribTeX and upload your document to it as an off-site backup.

People in this thread might also be interested in the following. GmailTeX allows you to see LaTeX in your Gmail and GChat. Works in real-time, but browser plug-in required.<p><a href="http://alexeev.org/gmailtex.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexeev.org&#x2F;gmailtex.html</a><p>Socrates is a website for writing instant Markdown and LaTeXing in the browser. It&#x27;s hyperlink-shareable, no plugin required.<p><a href="http://socrates.io/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;socrates.io&#x2F;</a>

My experience is that LaTex is too hard&#x2F;strange for most people (even electrical engineers, so its not about IQ...), and there isn&#x27;t a better alternative to MS Word for writing big product manuals.<p>(Also, while having some experience with the system, I do notice that I have a hard time achieving flow while writing LaTex. There are hundreds of WTFs).

There is another site called <a href="http://www.writelatex.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.writelatex.com</a>

I&#x27;m surely getting old, but I believe online editing of text documents is insane. I would forget about writing anything slightly more important than a pie recipe with this.

I swear by StackEdit one, which is an online editor for markdown supporting LaTex math expressions: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stackedit/iiooodelglhkcpgbajoejffhijaclcdg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;stackedit&#x2F;iiooodel...</a>

Used sharelatex for my third year project report at university. ~60 pages rendered quickly and flawlessly. Such a great experience using it compared to various desktop software and command line

Going the other way, if you want to enter the LaTeX variant called MathJax locally (PC and Mac), which is used on math.stackexchange.com (among other other places), try <a href="http://www.inkcode.net/qute" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inkcode.net&#x2F;qute</a>. I find this very handy for short to moderate length math.<p>In my weirdness, I like to use qute in split-screen mode, and work out the math as I enter it, never writing anything down. I then make corrections, modify things, move lines around, all in qute. I have developed some techniques for having correct MathJax syntax at almost all times, which I find necessary since qute does not show the result of an incorrect expression.<p>I find qute very useful for formatting math. Since it is all offline, no connection is needed. After the formatting is correct, I can then push it to the clipboard and paste it into whatever I want (usually math.stackexchange.com).<p>I recommend qute highly. Again, it is for Windows and Mac OS, not Linux (unfortunately).

There&#x27;s something vaguely &quot;scammy&quot; to be about the university logos being featured so prominently on the front page. My first thought was that it was being developed by a consortium of schools, but apparently it is considered good enough if one or more students at the institution use the product...

I used Scribtex (a previous product developed by at least some of the people behind sharelatex) for 2 years during university with a lot of success. Compared to setting up a latex environment on every PC I used it was a dream. I found the developer quick to respond to bug reports and issues. Recommended!

It is a good editor.you can create you own resume through the sharelatex....

We use LaTeX a lot for all kinds of documentation. I&#x27;ve used sharelatex.com on and off for a while now.<p>I think they&#x27;ll be onto a winner when they&#x27;ve got their up coming Git access feature sorted out.

How you can speedup LaTeX compilation speeds by a factor of 2x or 3x.<p>%&amp;Thesis -jobname=&quot;Thesis&quot;<p>% ^^This needs to be the 1st line of your Thesis.tex^^<p>%% Enable Binary Preamble Cache<p>%% Doc: <a href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mylatexformat" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ctan.org&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;mylatexformat</a><p>%% Usage: pdflatex -ini -synctex=1 -shell-escape -jobname=&quot;Thesis&quot; &quot;&amp;pdflatex&quot; mylatexformat.ltx Thesis.tex<p>\csname endofdump\endcsname<p>What follows here is the part that changes, ie. your chapters. All preceding &quot;endofdump&quot; will be compiled into a cache file.

The templates section is nevertheless useful <a href="https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sharelatex.com&#x2F;templates&#x2F;</a>

Since we&#x27;re on the subject, here&#x27;s my online LaTex editor:<p><a href="http://arachnoid.com/latex/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arachnoid.com&#x2F;latex&#x2F;</a>