They install one or more releases of TeX Live as the standard LaTeX on a Linux server.
The approaches taken by the online services tested here share striking similarities: Not everybody is up to the task, as is evident from the failures experienced by such services as Fidus Writer, FlyLaTeX, SpanDeX, LaTeX Lab, and MonkeyTeX. In this article, I examine three candidates – Papeeria, ShareLaTeX, and Overleaf – to see whether online services offer faultless capabilities or whether users are forced to accept restrictions so painful that they forego using the services altogether.īuilding, distributing, and maintaining this type of online service is a complicated endeavor. Additionally, online access makes it possible to work in groups and take advantage of versioning. Therefore, the idea of using LaTeX in an online browser is appealing, because it is a simple and elegant solution that gets around the problems encountered when installing other applications. Consequently, even experienced users are not always able to complete installation successfully without apps like TeX Writer or VerbTeX already running on the target platform. However, the installation process comes with numerous problems. In fact, various possibilities do exist for installing the program on tablets and the like. These same users also want it to be available for everyday use on all of their devices. Users who have come to understand and appreciate the advantages of a typesetting program like LaTeX prefer to use it exclusively when drafting text.
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