Documents Live, a web authoring and publishing system
Documents Live, a web authoring and publishing system
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First published on Friday, Feb 28, 2025 and last modified on Sunday, Feb 22, 2026
It cannot be easier to assemble documents in Documents Live to create a web publication.
To create your publication, click the button that says "Create a publication". This takes you to a form with two inputs :
The publication is parsed line by line from the content description. Each line can be of two kinds :
Markdown sectioning commands consist of a prefix, followed by the section title. The prefix consists of a succession of hashtag # characters followed by a blank character. The number of hashtags indicates the sectioning level.
You can edit the document content directly in the web form, or do it in a text editor on your computer and paste the result afterwards into the form.
Here is an example (it is the start of the Documents Live help center, which is a publication) :
# Introduction
Introduction to the LaTeX2web help
LaTeX for the non mathematician
FAQ
# Using LaTeX2Web
The LaTeX2Web workflow
The Inline Editor
Search engines and social media
Discussions
Control access to your documents
# LaTeX ReferenceNote: some titles in the publication have been re-branded to "Documents Live". However, in the publication table of contents, original documents titles must be used. The explains the presence of "LaTeX2Web" in the publication outline. The end user, however, will see the updated titles that use "Documents Live".
Once you have created a publication, it will appear at the bottom of your documents dashboard. Clicking of the "Edit" button will bring you back to the publication content edit form. There you can re-organize the publication, add or remove documents.
To add a document, you can go to the document dashboard, and select "Copy title" in the drop-down "Action" menu. Then you can paste the document title anywhere in your publication content before submission.
Documents Live maintains two publications:
When you view a document in a publication, you have an extra button bar above the document that lets you navigate in the publication.
The left and right arrow lets you browse the documents in succession. Between the arrows, you have the table of contents. The table of contents is a mix of a very simple publication and usual document table of contents. The links bring you directly to a document, and you can collapse or expand the sections as if it was an ordinary Documents Live document.
Visit these two publications and see how they work ! And remember, it is very easy to configure a publication. We do this almost every day !