Edit LaTeX Documents in the Cloud with ScribTex

Edit LaTeX Documents in the Cloud with ScribTexArchive Unresolved - Placeholder Asset" alt="ScribTex logo" width="150" height="43" />Ever need to edit a .tex file, but stuck on a machine with no LaTeX editor? You can now use ScribTex, a web-based LaTeX editor, to create, edit, share, collaborate on LaTeX documents. You can even use Scribtex to easily and quickly compile to PDF. There's also a mobile web version so you can edit your documents on the go.

LaTeX is a document markup language popular with academics. It allows users to create well formated documents from a text editor or dedicated LaTeX editor.





Scribtex may not be ready to replace a desktop LaTeX editor yet, but in a comment on Hacker News Scribtex creator James Pallen writes that the following features are being worked on:

• Better history navigation


• Improvements in the editor to add functionality beyond syntax highlighting


• Push and pull access to the underlying git repository (you can e-mail james@scribtex.com to have this feature enabled for your account, but it's still being tested)

A better editor would certainly put it further along the path of being a full replacement. In the meantime, it's at least a useful tool for editing LaTeX on the go or collaborating on documents.