Why I built LaTeX Suite

LaTeX is powerful, but writing it becomes tiring very quickly once a formula gets complicated. Most of the time, we end up spending more time jumping between braces than thinking about the formula itself. For years, I dealt with this by moving my writing between several applications. Each one solved part of the problem, but none solved the whole thing. The LaTeX Suite desktop app came from wanting the formula editor to follow me, instead of moving the whole article around whenever I needed to write a formula. The original problemAs an undergraduate, I was an active blogger on Zhihu (the Chinese equivalent of Quora) and wrote many articles there. The editor supported some basic formula input, but it was not designed for the amount of mathematics I wanted to write. Entering a simple expression was manageable. Entering many long or structurally complex expressions was tiring. LaTeX was only part of the problem. I was also not satisfied with the general writing experience, so I began…