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ShareLaTeX

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Developer(s)
  
ShareLaTeX

License
  
AGPL v3

Type
  
Web application

Website
  
www.sharelatex.com

ShareLaTeX is an online LaTeX editor that allows real-time collaboration and online compiling of projects to PDF format.

Contents

In comparison to other LaTeX editors, ShareLaTeX is a server-based application, which is accessed through a web browser. A publicly maintained instance of ShareLaTeX is available at https://www.sharelatex.com, and the software to run a personal instance of ShareLaTeX is available under an open-source license.

Features

The site follows the freemium pricing model, and the free hosted accounts and open-source version of ShareLaTeX include the following features:

  • private and public projects,
  • real-time collaboration between private collaborators,
  • spell-check,
  • one-click compilation to PDF.
  • The paid plans include additional features:

  • change Tracking,
  • Dropbox synchronization,
  • GitHub synchronization.
  • Technical architecture

    ShareLaTeX uses Node.js written in CoffeeScript with data stored in MongoDB and Redis.

    ShareLaTeX is able to integrate R. It has integrated the Knitr package.

    References

    ShareLaTeX Wikipedia