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My brother is writing his thesis in Economics soon and we live at different ends of our country. I'm trying to convince him that Latex is the way to go and being able to do online help sessions would help a lot.

Besides, to someone who has only ever used WYSIWYG installing compilers and the like is really complicated.

This would be very useful for those who work on a netbook or a thin client. Besides, people do use Google Docs even though they have a full fledged document editing software on their machines.

A lot of users have said they really appreciate how accessible LaTeX is with ScribTeX. I know that's not an important point for everyone but it is a big help to some.

I have access to a machine with TeX installed, but I also have a machine that weighs less than two pounds, gets eight hours of use on battery, and supports websites a whole lot more than it does TeX. If I wrote more papers, this would be quite useful.