<story><title>Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor</title><url>https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I mean, by &amp;quot;not that hard&amp;quot;, I guess I meant &amp;quot;not that hard for me&amp;quot;; `nix-shell -p texliveFull` or whatever your preferred distro&amp;#x27;s install command.&lt;p&gt;While that requires a certain level of geekiness, I am pretty sure I could still walk my parents through installing it on Windows and get them using TeXStudio or something, so it&amp;#x27;s not insurmountable.  LaTeX itself sort of inherently requires a willingness to do thing in the initially-less-easy way.&lt;p&gt;That said, yeah a web service is of course much more approachable. If my parents wanted to use LaTeX I would probably just point them to Overleaf.</text></item><item><author>Levitating</author><text>&amp;gt; it&amp;#x27;s not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything&lt;p&gt;that&amp;#x27;s debatable&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  I find Markdown considerably more pleasant&lt;p&gt;You could try &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typst.app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typst.app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve known about Overleaf for almost as long as I&amp;#x27;ve used LaTeX and until about two years ago, I didn&amp;#x27;t really understand the point of it; it&amp;#x27;s not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything, what&amp;#x27;s the advantage of a web service?&lt;p&gt;It wasn&amp;#x27;t until I started doing my PhD work where I realized the Overleaf is useful, because the collaborative tools are extremely handy.  LaTeX is very popular in the academic world, and Overleaf allows me to easily work on papers with my advisors (who live in a different continent).  It&amp;#x27;s been great.&lt;p&gt;I do wish they&amp;#x27;d add Pandoc support; LaTeX is cool but I find Markdown considerably more pleasant about 95% of the time, so it&amp;#x27;d be great if they could let us use that, though I realize this is probably easier said than done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcparkyn</author><text>Installing it is easy, what&amp;#x27;s harder is making sure all your collaborators have the same packages and versions of everything.</text></comment>
<story><title>Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor</title><url>https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I mean, by &amp;quot;not that hard&amp;quot;, I guess I meant &amp;quot;not that hard for me&amp;quot;; `nix-shell -p texliveFull` or whatever your preferred distro&amp;#x27;s install command.&lt;p&gt;While that requires a certain level of geekiness, I am pretty sure I could still walk my parents through installing it on Windows and get them using TeXStudio or something, so it&amp;#x27;s not insurmountable.  LaTeX itself sort of inherently requires a willingness to do thing in the initially-less-easy way.&lt;p&gt;That said, yeah a web service is of course much more approachable. If my parents wanted to use LaTeX I would probably just point them to Overleaf.</text></item><item><author>Levitating</author><text>&amp;gt; it&amp;#x27;s not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything&lt;p&gt;that&amp;#x27;s debatable&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  I find Markdown considerably more pleasant&lt;p&gt;You could try &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typst.app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typst.app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve known about Overleaf for almost as long as I&amp;#x27;ve used LaTeX and until about two years ago, I didn&amp;#x27;t really understand the point of it; it&amp;#x27;s not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything, what&amp;#x27;s the advantage of a web service?&lt;p&gt;It wasn&amp;#x27;t until I started doing my PhD work where I realized the Overleaf is useful, because the collaborative tools are extremely handy.  LaTeX is very popular in the academic world, and Overleaf allows me to easily work on papers with my advisors (who live in a different continent).  It&amp;#x27;s been great.&lt;p&gt;I do wish they&amp;#x27;d add Pandoc support; LaTeX is cool but I find Markdown considerably more pleasant about 95% of the time, so it&amp;#x27;d be great if they could let us use that, though I realize this is probably easier said than done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MatthiasPortzel</author><text>I tried to &amp;quot;install LaTeX&amp;quot; on Mac. I installed latex2html with Brew, and passed it an example .tex. I got `Fatal (syswait): exec &amp;quot; .&amp;#x2F;images.tex&amp;quot; failed: Permission denied`&lt;p&gt;I tried to install `texlive` (at your recommendation) also through brew, and got the error `Could not symlink bin&amp;#x2F;afm2tfm.Target &amp;#x2F;usr&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;afm2tfm already exists.`&lt;p&gt;Overleaf just works.</text></comment>