I would like to know if there are practical ways of sharing latex texts for review with people that are not familiar with latex.  Currently I use pygmentise:  pygmentize -f html -O full -o ./header-analysis-2015.doc ./paper-contents.tex   The nice thing about e.g. MS Word is that it syntax highligts the document automatically, such that the reviewer is not destracted by the latex code.
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Context: I prepare my scientific documents using LaTeX and compile to a PDF. I often need to seek comments on drafts from collaborators who do not use LaTeX. Most of these collaborators use Windows OS. Assume also that the collaborator does not need to edit the document.  They only need to be able to add comments to the document. Most would be familiar with the commenting system in MS Word, for example. I'd like to be able to give the collaborator some clear instructions about what software and system they should use to comment on the draft.  This should involve free software and an easy to use interface.  Question: What is a good strategy for getting comments on draft documents when the collaborator does not know LaTeX?  Initial thoughts: I know Adobe professional allows you to add comments to a PDF.  However, some collaborators don't have this software and it costs money.  I could send the raw LaTeX to the collaborator. However, given all the markup, the collaborator may find LaTeX source a bit mysterious.  UPDATE: After posting I noticed  to a similar question. Along with a number of other good tips (such as printing and getting paper comments), he mentions jarnal, xournal, and gournal as free cross-platform PDF annotators. I'd be curious to know whether experts have found them adequate for the above mentioned purpose and whether any of them are to be preferred. Others mention FoXIt. And yet others discuss the option of exporting to MS Word or Open Office and using the reviewing system within these programs.
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Is there any way to compile a .tex to pdf without having to install latex.  Is there any python package for this ?  Or even better is there any small stand-alone portable software for this.  Thanks a lot
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I've been using LaTeX for about 3 months, and I'm hooked. My background is programming, so for the basic, google is sufficient. I did some research on amazon.com and found these two books with many positive feedback:    However, most of people said they are more like references than a real book. And if they really are, then I think I'd rather look up at CTAN. What I'm looking for is a book that can teach me how to program in LaTeX, for example:   Write my own package   Create animation  Create and using macro in LaTeX ....   I know there are many options around, however to pick the right one is not an easy task. Any advice or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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I have heard a lot about LaTeX, but never used it myself.  It is mainly used for typesetting professional research papers. But I am not writing research papers.  Is LaTeX for me? If yes, why should I be shifting from OpenOffice to LaTeX? What does LaTeX offer to the normal user who uses word processing software to make all kind of report documents?
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This is kind of similar to some of the pdf to latex questions but from a different angle.  I'm not looking for a complete LaTeX reconstruction method, I want to know if the comments are safely hidden.  My scenario is that I would like to distribute a sample test to my students which includes the real test or some variation of it commented out---that way I can keep the same file from year to year without having to manage multiple documents.  I'm pretty sure that what's commented out is dropped entirely from the compiled document but I'd like to be absolutely certain before I distribute such a pdf.  Is there any way whatsoever to extract commented lines from the final pdf? If it makes any difference, I'll probably be using XeLaTeX.
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Is there any tool that can convert Latex documents to HTML documents, so that all math is presented with ?  (Obviously, it is fairly easy to hack together a quick Perl script that is able to do a crude conversion, but I am interested in a bit more robust solutions — at least it should get all cross-references right automatically.)
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I've used LaTeX a lot in the past, but now, when comparing with StackExchange's great , I find it tedious, for short documents (&lt; 2 pages), to have to use pure LaTeX. For a short document, instead of having 30 lines as introduction: \begin{document} \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[frenchb]{babel} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts}  + &lt;lots of other things&gt; ...  I'd like to write my short document with MarkDown + Math, like on . Question: Is there an offline compiler such that compilemarkdown exercice.tex  would produce a PDF from this: #Title  Here is a *short document* including Markdown and Math, here is the equation:  $$f(x)=x^2$$  ___  Proof: ...   This is **bold**.
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I am giving a LaTeX course and have the idea to let the students find and solve problems within a few documents. Basically they shall learn how to create minimal examples and read error messages.  However, currently I have no document with 'typical' errors around.  If someone has such examples from him- or herself or within this forum I would like to have the code or link. It does not matter if its short or long. It should just be enough to let the students play with it for some minutes.
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If you were asked to show examples of beautifully typeset documents in TeX &amp; friends, what would you suggest? Preferably documents available online (I'm aware I could go to a bookstore and find many such documents called 'books'). Extra bonus for documents whose LaTeX source is available.  This is not an idle question. Seeing great examples of any craft is both educational and inspiring, let alone explaining why we prefer TeX to Word or other text editors.  For instance, I like how Philipp Lehman's  looks. I don't know enough LaTeX to realize how much customization was done, but the ToC looks polished.  Your nominations, please ...
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I have the following situation:  Like most LaTeX users that write much, I have my own header files where the packages I use normally are required and the macros I use often are defined.  So if I write some article, I will normally use my own macros and save a lot of time and redundancies.  Now I send in my article to some journal and they want to publish it! Of course they want me to send in my source code.  Naturally, the following problem arises: The publishers won't want to include my own headers. They want code that compiles on every regular TeX-distribution. How can I convert my source into a file that doesn't contain my own macros anymore?  I need something like a preprocessor, that "inlines"/expands all macros and definitions found in the headers I explicitly specify (my headers), but not those in the other, unmentioned packages (regular headers).  Does anything like this exist? Could it be implemented using TeX/LaTeX or would one have to reimplement the macro expansion mechanism?
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Aside from CTAN, what are good resources/repositories for Latex templates? In particular, I'm looking for some pretty Thesis templates (I'm familiar with classicthesis)
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I  there's a LaTeX package for printing the text of "lorem ipsum".  Surely then, there's also a macro / package for writing "LaTeX" (with the proper super-/subscript) in a document.  But I found googling for this a bit hard. ("LaTeX macro"? Probably not.)  Can any of you groks help me out here?
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I'd like to use LaTeX to typeset a novel. Could you recommend me any template?  What I mean is a template (some .tex file) where I can include my chapterN.tex files (mainly plain text) and get a pretty good design with zero work :)
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I'm working with a colleague who uses LyX (I use LaTeX), and we have a hard time exchanging documents because of conversion issues. Is there any easy way to convert LyX to LaTeX and vice versa?
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I am using this program "Scientific Workplace", which seems to have a proprietary-non-standard version of LaTeX, i.e., a version that cannot be readily interpreted by standard Latex readers; I uploaded a .tex workplace file to someone who has a LaTeX reader, and no matter how he tried to open it, all he got was a garbled mess.  Does anyone know how to go around this, i.e., does anyone now if there is a special way of saving a file in Sci Workplace, or some other trick so that a Sci. Workplace-version Latex file can be  read by standard LaTeX readers?
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What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents? Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc.  This question is undergoing a systematic refurbishment, see  on Meta. If you’d like to see another editor feature covered here or to take care of an editor that’s not covered yet, share your ideas in that meta question.  List of editors Links to answers.
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I've a LaTeX source. I'm ready %for submission %But first I would like to strip its comments.  So I hope there are 100\% auto ways to get this done.  \begin{comment}    Because there are subtle ways to mess it up. \end{comment}   Is there a utility which will eliminate all these comments?  Yes, I could do it by hand, but that seems needlessly laborious, has the potential for mistakes, and makes maintenance difficult. I could also use sed, but there's a potential for mistakes. Besides, it is an axiom of the whole GNU/Linux thing that if you can think of it, someone's probably already made a utility for it.