Overview¶

Premium membership¶

A premium membership costs $4.99 per month (student discounts are available!) and enables

unlimited length document editing,
one-click publishing,
integrations with Dropbox and Google Drive,
offline mode,
and support over email.

Custom LaTeX packages¶

A number of useful, common LaTeX packages can be included with the \usepackage macro.

We plan on eventually supporting all custom packages hosted at CTAN, but please let us know if that’s a critical need for you.

Images¶

Images can be included in LaTeX Base documents by using the \includegraphics macro from the graphicx package. However, instead of providing a file path, you must use a direct image url. imgur, Google Drive, and Dropbox are all good candidates for uploading an image to be included in a LaTeX Base doc. Once uploaded to a third-party file hosting service, make sure the image is publicly viewable and that you’ve copied a direct link (ie using “Copy Image Location” in Chrome) to paste as an argument to \includegraphics within LaTeX Base.

What is offline mode?¶

Unlike other online LaTeX editors, we perform typesetting right in the browser! That means that if you’re not connected to the Internet, you can still make changes to, preview, and download your files when using Chrome 46+ or Opera 33+. Just navigate to https://latexbase.com when offline to load the app. The “https” bit is important. Also make sure not to hard refresh! Offline mode is powered by service workers which are discussed in this article.

Offline mode caveats¶

Offline mode is currently only available for Chrome 46+, Opera 33+, and Firefox 59+.
The compiler will fail if you try to use a new package while offline. That means you can only use packages offline that you’ve previously used while online.

Browser compatibility¶

We’re working to make document previews instantaneous, but today you should expect a few second delay before your changes are reflected in the live preview. The preview updates most quickly in Firefox, likely because of asm.js optimizations.