[FractalNerve]

Well, now you need a Distill WYSIWYG, to make it usable (for most of the intended audience).

Hey let's be honest, most academics (that I know) still don't even use LaTeX (or refuse to do so). This is really cool, but requires way too many skills (in js/css3/html5/distill-extensions and node.js).

Personally, my team and I had really great experience with sharelatex.com, whom only I had knowledge about LaTeX. I liked that it's also opensource with a permissive license. I would rather host that on sandstorm.io the next time, or just pay for the comfort offered by overleaf.com (I've never seen such a beautiful colloborative LaTeX Editor).

• What about vendor lock-in?

• Can you export to LaTeX, Word or PDF?

• Can you selfhost it for your team or company?

[eshvk]

> Hey let's be honest, most academics (that I know) still don't even use LaTeX (or refuse to do so).

What field? TeX is pretty much de rigueur in Math/CS/Physics graduate schools in the U.S.

[kriro]

To my surprise certain subfields of CS don't use LaTeX at all or rarely and use MS-Word instead. You kind of have no choice since the conference/journal templates are only provided in one format (well you can create your own template but only if they accept PDF entries...yes some only accept Word files).

[j2kun]

I agree with you here, and have no idea what the OP is talking about. In Math and ML, TeX is so ingrained in the culture that there are _jokes_ based on TeX puns. (Where do mathematicians go for a rational rack of ribs? The \mathbb Q)