French nonprofit association for LaTeX education

LatexDo

LatexDo makes professional LaTeX writing accessible through free desktop software, open-source code, practical documentation, and research workflows for students, researchers, educators, reviewers, and technical writers.

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  • Association loi 1901
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  • Last site review: August 12, 2026
Mission and nonprofit status

Read how the French association is organized and how its public-benefit mission guides the project.

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Install LatexDo for macOS, Windows, or Linux and work with local LaTeX projects on your machine.

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Nonprofit status French association governed by the 1901 nonprofit framework.
Mission activity Free software, documentation, research pages, and source code.
Current content Program and expense information reviewed on August 12, 2026.
Clear contact Board, donation, contribution, privacy, and security contacts are published.

Mission

Help more people produce high-quality technical documents.

LaTeX is central to science, engineering, mathematics, and technical publishing, but the tooling can be difficult for new users and costly for teams that need reliable workflows. LatexDo exists to keep a modern, open, inspectable option available to the public.

Mission and public activity summary last reviewed on August 12, 2026.

Students

Lower the learning curve for reports, theses, lab notes, and early research papers.

Researchers

Improve draft, review, rebuttal, citation, and submission workflows for academic work.

Educators

Provide free material that can be used in classes, workshops, and writing support.

Maintainers

Keep source code, roadmap decisions, and infrastructure costs visible to contributors.

Current activities

What the association maintains now.

LatexDo's public work is organized around practical barriers that prevent people from adopting LaTeX: installation, local compilation, source editing, citation checks, review workflows, and clear learning material.

Desktop app maintenance

Publish free installers, release metadata, checksums, and local-first editing improvements for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Educational documentation

Maintain HTML guidance for setup, compilation, project structure, bibliography checks, and troubleshooting.

Research workflow support

Document compiler diagnostics, knowledge graph work, and grounded AI tools that support reliable technical writing.

Open community work

Accept bug reports, documentation fixes, code contributions, governance questions, and donation requests through public channels.

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Desktop download

Start with the LatexDo desktop app.

The current public LatexDo app is the desktop app. Download it for macOS, Windows, or Linux to edit local projects, compile with your own TeX installation, preview PDFs, and keep your source files under your control.

Source editing

Edit .tex files in a focused desktop workspace designed for long technical documents.

PDF preview

Compile locally and review the generated PDF beside the source when your TeX toolchain is installed.

BibTeX projects

Keep bibliography files, figures, source files, and generated outputs together in your project folder.

Local-first workflow

Work from local files first, with source code and documentation open for inspection.

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Desktop app

Compile with your local TeX toolchain.

Native desktop application for macOS, Windows, and Linux with local LaTeX compilation, PDF preview, SyncTeX navigation, and project folder management.

Local compilation

Compile with your own latexmk installation. Full control over your TeX toolchain and packages.

PDF preview

View rendered PDF output with SyncTeX linking. Click to jump between source and preview positions.

Project management

Open local project folders, edit .tex and .bib files, and keep your paper structure organized.

Real diagnostics

Surface compiler errors, warnings, and badboxes connected to their source lines for quick fixes.

Take action

Use, improve, or support LatexDo.

Every primary action connects to the nonprofit mission rather than a commercial sales funnel. Visitors can use the software, learn from the documentation, contribute to the open-source project, or support the public infrastructure.

Use the free app

Download LatexDo and work with local LaTeX projects without a paid plan.

Download Learn LaTeX workflows

Read documentation for installation, project setup, compilation, citations, and troubleshooting.

Open documentation Contribute openly

Report bugs, improve documentation, review code, or suggest roadmap improvements.

Source code Fund public access

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