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I use this one: https://www.lyx.org/; it's free.

The idea of MonsterWriter is to break free of LaTeX and "only" support it as an Export mean (for PDF of LaTeX directly).

With MonsterWriter you also can export into other formats like Markdown, HTML or directly publish on a ghost blog.

Also you do not need to install LaTeX on your system. The typesetting is done on a server. For this the content is encrypted and is only processed in plaintex for the purpose of generating the PDF.

> to break free of LaTeX and "only" support it as an Export mean (for PDF of LaTeX directly)

The same with Lyx; it's even often criticised by LaTeX experts since it hides it very well and it is not particularly well suited to fiddle directly with the generated code.

I've tried it out some time ago; But only to see how it works. Back then I had the impression that e.g making a cross-reference sill requires you to label the figure, heading etc..

But maybe I did not got it right back then.

While both apps serve the same use case right now. The vision for MonsterWriter is to run in the Browser and support real time collaboration.

Doesn’t load and no SSL

Don't trust whatever is interpreting the link: https://www.lyx.org

Cert seems to have expired two days ago.

I think they just forgot to renew the certificate. Looks like the right link to me.

Or this one: https://www.texmacs.org/; also free, no TeX required.

Link is broken because of the semicolon; Did not know you do not need TeX for this one.

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