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Summary: Most popular computer languages provide useful interactive online help and documentation. LaTeX

Date and time: Thursday 2 September, 6.30 to 7.30pm UK time.
UK time now: https://time.is/UK.
Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09

OVERVIEW

I'd like our community to develop online tools to help LaTeX authors, particularly beginners. Here's an example. It's easy to make a syntax error when writing a LaTeX document. And then you get a TeX error, perhaps unconnected with your error. I'd like to see an online LaTeX syntax checker, that's linked to a help system.

Searching for https://www.google.com/search?q=json+syntax+checker immediately gives about 20 online JSON checkers. However, a similar search for LaTeX doesn't give similar results. I think there's a big gap here.

HTML has https://www.w3schools.com/, which allows you to start learning immediately. For comparison look at https://www.learnlatex.org/en/.

That's my gripe. I'd like to hear yours, and discuss what we could do to improve interactive online help and documentation for LaTeX users, particularly beginners.

INVITE
You're invited to tomorrow's TeX Hour: Interactive online help.
Date and time: Thursday 2 September, 6.30 to 7.30pm UK time.
UK time now: https://time.is/UK.
Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
Meeting ID: 785 5125 5396
Passcode: knuth

LAST WEEK'S VIDEOS
Last week's TeX Hour was onPortable TeX Documents.  It's now closer to being a thing. I'm encouraged. The videos are available at

 
Happy TeXing

Jonathan