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

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.