41 votes
make export understand LaTeX
EtherPad is already great for collaboratively writing papers in LaTeX. The main problem is in getting the latex source out of EP so it can be compiled and previewed.
We have some semi-automatic workarounds, like this perl script:
http://forums.etherpad.com/viewtopic.php?id=168
and this ruby scri... more

gladslincon
Great.Idea.
dreeves
There's something wrong with that first link.