Everything texlode does.
The full tour: how the real-time engine works, what you can import, what you can export, and how the project is run. Back to the overview.
See it in action
Watch the TUG 2026 talk: real-time LaTeX rendering, paragraph-level compilation, and what it means for publishing workflows.
Accessibility built in, not bolted on
A 2024 study found that 75% of scholarly PDFs fail every accessibility criterion. The EU Accessibility Act (effective June 2025) makes inaccessible digital publications a legal liability in EU markets. texlode generates tagged PDF/UA-2 output with proper document structure, MathML for equations, and a built-in accessibility preflight that catches missing alt text, skipped heading levels, and undeclared document language before you publish, with AI-assisted alt-text generation to help close the gaps. And every export is automatically checked with veraPDF, the industry-standard PDF/UA validator. You see the compliance verdict right in the editor, for every book, every time. Ebooks are covered, too: EPUB exports carry every equation as accessible MathML that screen readers can speak, validated with EPUBCheck on every export and developed against Ace by DAISY, the EPUB accessibility checker; a 10,000-equation mathematics monograph audits clean. Accessible by default, without expensive remediation.
Bring your manuscript
Import the book you are ready to publish. texlode converts your existing manuscript and typesets it automatically. No LaTeX knowledge required.
Supported formats
- Word (.docx)
- Markdown
- Plain text
Converted automatically
- Headings and structure
- Figures and captions
- Footnotes and references
- Tables
- Bibliography
- Math and equations
AI-assisted cleanup
- Detect headings from formatting
- Pair images with captions
- Extract inline citations to BibTeX
- Reconstruct complex tables
- Identify code listings
- Map custom styles to commands
Your book, typeset by the best typesetting engine in the world
texlode is powered by the same typesetting engine that has been producing the world's most beautiful books, journals, and textbooks for over 40 years. The difference is visible on every page.
Optimal line breaking
The Knuth-Plass algorithm considers every possible way to break a paragraph into lines and chooses the best one. Word processors break line by line. LaTeX optimizes the whole paragraph at once.
Microtypography
Character protrusion, font expansion, and subtle tracking adjustments give text blocks an even, balanced appearance. Readers notice the result even when they cannot name the cause.
Beautiful math
Equations, matrices, integrals, and proofs, typeset with the same precision that scientific publishers have relied on for decades. No other system matches LaTeX's mathematical typography.
Print-ready output
Trim marks, bleed, correct margins, proper hyphenation in 50+ languages. The PDF is ready for print-on-demand or offset printing without post-processing.
Also included, because it is LaTeX
texlode inherits 40+ years of typography research from the TeX ecosystem. A partial list of what ships automatically:
Typography
- Widow and orphan control
- OpenType ligatures, small caps, old-style figures
- Kerning from font metrics
- Smart punctuation: en/em dashes, curly quotes, thin spaces
Long-book automation
- Auto-numbered figures, tables, equations, chapters
- Auto-generated Table of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables
- Index with page ranges and sub-entries
- Bibliography and citations: BibLaTeX, Zotero, any style
- Running headers with live chapter names
- Multi-page footnotes and per-chapter endnotes
Math and technical
- Math typesetting: the scientific publishing standard
- TikZ vector diagrams embedded in source
- Chemistry, music, linguistics, circuits packages
Print production
- PDF/X output: CMYK, ICC profiles, bleeds, crop marks
- PDF/A-3b archival export: ISO 19005-3, long-term preservation
- PDF/UA-2 accessible export, machine-validated with veraPDF on every export: tagged headings, tables with header scope, hyperlinks with structure destinations, footnote cross-linking, MathML, alt text
- Automatic font subsetting and embedding
- Reproducible forever: pinned TeX distribution and fonts, so the same input produces the same PDF today, next year, or a decade from now
- 50+ languages: real hyphenation, BiDi, RTL
Print your book and ebook from a single source
Write once. texlode produces both a print-ready PDF and a reflowable EPUB from the same manuscript, with no duplicate files to keep in sync and no conversion tools.
Print PDF
Fixed-layout PDF with trim, bleed, and margins matching your printer's specifications. PDF meets Lulu and IngramSpark print specifications.
EPUB
Reflowable ebook that works on Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, and any e-reader. Equations export as true MathML rather than pictures of math, so they reflow, scale with the reader's font size, and can be read aloud by screen readers. For Kindle publishing, LODE Publishing offers a professional service with device-calibrated math baselines and accessibility certification. Chapter structure, images, and metadata carry over automatically. How to export an e-book
Write with your team
Invite your co-authors and editors to work on your book in real time. Everyone edits the same file and sees the same preview.
Real-time co-editing
Multiple people editing the same document simultaneously, with colored cursors showing who is working where.
Inline comments
Comments are embedded in the document source. Tied to the surrounding text, they carry over with copy-paste, persist through version control, and can appear in the PDF when you want them to.
Your work is never lost
Every keystroke is auto-saved and every version is kept in Git, so a bad edit, a crashed browser, or a change you regret costs you nothing: revert to any previous state in seconds.
Print and distribute your book
texlode checks your print files against Lulu’s print-on-demand requirements and generates EPUB for ebook platforms. More distribution channels are coming.
Print files checked for Lulu
From inside the editor, you have Lulu check your interior and cover PDFs against its print requirements, and texlode tells you how to upload them to Lulu. No inventory, no upfront cost: Lulu prints and ships each copy when a customer orders.
Wider distribution (coming soon)
IngramSpark and Amazon KDP integration are planned for after launch, giving your book access to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and thousands of independent bookstores.
Ebook export
Download your EPUB and upload it to Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, or Google Play Books. One source, any ebook platform.
You set the price
You choose your retail price when you publish on Lulu, and Lulu pays your revenue directly to you.
If you already write in LaTeX, you are ready to go
texlode runs on the LuaTeX engine. Your .tex files, bibliographies, and packages will work, and you will have a real-time preview that updates as you type.
Instant feedback
Incremental paragraph compilation in a few milliseconds, however long the book. Watch your typeset output update as you type.
No slowdown at 500 pages
With texlode, editing a paragraph in a 500-page textbook responds as quickly as editing a one-page letter. Document size does not affect your typing experience.
Drag to adjust values
Font sizes, margins, spacing: any point value has an integrated slider. Drag to compare settings and see the typeset result update live.
Move things on the page
Grab a paragraph in the preview and drag it to a new position. The source reorders automatically.
A WYSIWYG LaTeX editor that never makes you wait
Every other LaTeX editor, local or cloud, recompiles the full document on every edit. Overleaf's free tier times out after 20 seconds; paid plans take up to 62 seconds for a large document. texlode compiles only the paragraph you changed, in a few milliseconds.
| CPU per edit | Download | Network per edit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local LaTeX | 45 s of full CPU | 4–9 GB | None |
| Overleaf | 62 s of server CPU | None | Full PDF each time |
| Typst | ~140 ms | 48 MB | None |
| texlode | ~8 ms | None | A few KB |
CPU per edit: compute time to re-typeset after changing one paragraph, before anything is drawn. Local LaTeX and Overleaf figures from a 100-page document with bibliography (Octree benchmark, 10-run average). Typst and texlode: the same 6-line paragraph in a 300-page document, on the same machine (AMD EPYC cloud server); Typst 0.15.1 incremental, without PDF export. texlode's time does not grow with the length of the book, because only the changed paragraph is recompiled; Typst's grows with the document.
62,000× less CPU per edit
Overleaf runs over 1,000 server CPU cores just for LaTeX compilation. Each edit recompiles the entire document from scratch. texlode recompiles only the changed paragraph, in a few milliseconds. The server handles well over a thousand edits per second.
No 9 GB download, ever
TeX Live is 4–9 GB installed per machine, updated annually. Millions of copies worldwide, most of it never used. texlode runs everything on the server, so nothing lands on your disk in the first place.
Your battery lasts longer
Local compilation pins your CPU for seconds to minutes on every save. LuaLaTeX alone is 4–7x slower than pdfLaTeX. Overleaf offloads the work but sends back a full PDF on every compile. texlode sends only the changed paragraph, a few kilobytes. Your fan stays off.
Less compute, less energy, less waste
Cloud LaTeX editors recompile your entire document on every edit and ship a full PDF to your browser each time. Over an hour of active editing, that adds up to 600–1,200 CPU-seconds and hundreds of megabytes of PDF transfers per user. texlode recompiles only the changed paragraph and renders directly in the browser. The result: 10–30× less server compute per editing hour.
Zero PDFs during editing
Overleaf generates 60–120 PDFs per hour of active editing, one after every pause. texlode generates zero. The preview renders directly on your screen. A PDF is created once, when you export.
Collaboration without multiplied load
On Overleaf, each collaborator's edits trigger a full server-side recompile for everyone. Five people editing means five times the compute. On texlode, the server processes each edit once; all editors receive the same lightweight update.
Kilobytes instead of megabytes
Overleaf transfers a full PDF on every compile: 120 MB to 1.2 GB per hour of editing on a 100-page document. texlode sends only the changed paragraph data: a few kilobytes per edit.
Run it your way
texlode is available as a hosted service or deployed on your own infrastructure. Universities, publishers, and enterprises can run the full platform on-premises.
Hosted
We run the infrastructure on Fly.io, with automatic scaling and worldwide availability. Sign in with GitHub or email. Your files are stored in a Git repository you control. Nothing to install, nothing to maintain.
On-Premises (Planned)
Your servers, your data, your fonts. A single Docker image with everything included. No data leaves your network. On-premises deployment is currently in planning.
Contact us for on-premises pricing and custom integrations.
Plans
Pricing is not finalized yet. Here is the shape of what is coming.
Free
For individual authors getting started
- All editor features
- 1 document open at a time, up to 25 documents in total
- Up to 5 new documents per day
- Closed documents move to cold storage; reopening one takes a few seconds
- 512 MB storage per document, 1 GB across all your documents
- Up to 5 collaborators
- PDF export
- Git sync
Standard
For individual authors and researchers
Everything in Free, plus
- Work on up to 2 documents in parallel, 100 in total
- Conference proceedings: set up the volume, collect papers, run reviews; one purchase per volume when you publish
- Unlimited collaborators
- 5 GB storage per document, 25 GB across all your documents
- Priority support
Pro
For publishers, organizations, and power users
Everything in Standard, plus
- Work on up to 5 documents in parallel, unlimited in total
- 50 GB storage per document, 250 GB across all your documents
- Fast switching: 2 CPU cores, and a workspace stays running for 10 minutes after your last edit
- Organization branding: auto-fill impressum, logo, and colors across your books
- Dedicated support
This is a preliminary tier system. Features and prices may change before launch. Contact us with questions.
Security & compliance
Built for universities, publishers, and enterprises that need to know where their data lives and how it is protected.
EU-hosted
All infrastructure runs in Frankfurt (EU). Document data, compiled output, and session state stay in the European Union.
Per-user isolation
Every editing session runs in its own isolated machine. No shared processes, no shared filesystems between users.
Encrypted in transit
All connections use TLS. The editor communicates over HTTPS and secure WebSockets (WSS). No unencrypted traffic.
GDPR-ready
Data Processing Agreement signed with infrastructure provider. Customer-facing DPA available on request. Privacy policy and legal disclosures available on this site.
For universities, publishers, and conference organizers
Managed infrastructure
All operations (scaling, deployment, monitoring, restarts) are handled by Fly.io. Each document is served from its own isolated machine that scales automatically. No sysadmin on your side.
EU-hosted, worldwide reach
Primary infrastructure in Frankfurt (EU), with edge routing worldwide. Data stays in the EU by default; transfers to US sub-processors rest on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, with standard contractual clauses as the fallback (see our privacy policy). DPA available on request.
Flexible authentication
Sign in with GitHub or email (magic link). No institutional SSO dependency. Users own their Git repositories and can export at any time, so there is no vendor lock-in.
Accessibility compliance
Every PDF export is machine-validated against the full PDF/UA-2 standard (1,723 veraPDF rules). Meets EU Accessibility Act requirements without manual remediation or external consultants.
Contact us for institutional pricing, volume licensing, and on-premises deployment.
About the developer
Clemens has been writing and producing books with LaTeX since 2014: 10 of his own and more than 20 for clients, some up to 700 pages. Before that, over 20 years he built systems that transform structured data into formatted output, from game engines and optimization algorithms to medical backends and real-time data pipelines. Every feature in texlode comes from that convergence.
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