Real-time LaTeX in browser

Alec Jacobson

August 23, 2016

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A long time ago, I made a little web app that allowed you to submit Latex code to a server, the server would run pdflatex and then send back the pdf to be rendered on the page.

Nowadays MathJax can render LaTeX equations in the browser. I found http://www.texrendr.com that let's you interactively write formulae, but it's restricted to a single equation. There's also the LaTeXit standalone app, but you have to keep hitting "typeset". This isn't so useful if you're trying to quickly type math during a Skype call.

So I wrote a little program to run in the browser:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/latex.html

You can also fork the git gist