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Re:How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma? by JohnHammersley on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @04:15PM (#5105328)
A site dedicated to "How can I explain the meaning of XYZ to my grandma?" would make a great wiki!

Re LaTeX: The new crop of online LaTeX editors are making it easier to use, taking away the installation/setup barriers amongst other things. I helped to develop https://www.writelatex.com to try to find a way to bring the language online to an Etherpad-like frontend.

I still never had this good an answer for what LaTeX is though - wish I'd thought to ask...

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Re:How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma? by Stefan_K on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @05:15PM (#5105644)
Online cloud based editors are a great step forward. They bring LaTeX to tablets and smartphones, and to people who now don't need to overcome the barrier of a LaTeX installation, and maintaining it.

With an online editor, I can send my mom a web link and a LaTeX document which she can easily compile on her iPad! She even can do text corrections for me, even if she doesn't know those preamble things.

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