I was surprised today to learn that a friend in academia did not +know there are easily available web services available for writing +LaTeX documents as a team. I thought it was common knowledge, but to +make sure at least my readers are aware of it, I would like to mention +these useful services for writing LaTeX documents. Some of them even +provide a WYSIWYG editor to ease writing even further.
+ +There are two commercial services available, +ShareLaTeX and +Overleaf. They are very easy to +use. Just start a new document, select which publisher to write for +(ie which LaTeX style to use), and start writing. Note, these two +have announced their intention to join forces, so soon it will only be +one joint service. I've used both for different documents, and they +work just fine. While +ShareLaTeX is free +software, while the latter is not. According to a +announcement from Overleaf, they plan to keep the ShareLaTeX code +base maintained as free software.
+ +But these two are not the only alternatives. +Fidus Writer is another free +software solution with the +source available on github. I have not used it myself. Several +others can be found on the nice +alterntiveTo +web service. + +If you like Google Docs or Etherpad, but would like to write +documents in LaTeX, you should check out these services. You can even +host your own, if you want to. :)
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