Macmillan Invests in “Google Docs for Researchers” Firm WriteLaTeX

Digital Science, a division of the Macmillan publishing giant, has invested an undisclosed amount in London startup called WriteLaTeX, which provides a collaborative paper-writing tool for researchers called Overleaf.

Overleaf is a WYSIWYG editor that allows researchers to work together on scientific documents that use the LaTeX markup language - ubiquitous in the physical sciences in particular - for displaying and typesetting formulae.