What modern alternatives are people using these days I mean anything that allows me to write down nice looking documents with arbitrarily complicated math equations (even word, just list anything that works for this purpose). However, for more complex documents, you may want to consider latex Using markdown with pandoc can also be a good way to get the best of both worlds You can write in markdown and then convert to latex or use a latex template for pdf export Markdown generally converts to word documents well too.
The best latex alternatives are quarkdown, markdown and typst For someone experienced, it's undoubtedly slower than latex and the finished product won't be as pretty, but if you're simply unable to make the connection in your brain between code and how it will look compiled, then it might be a viable alternative. So my question is is there a workable alternative to the new overleaf A tool that has no login requirements, so that i can directly link to the source to updating result view, with edit support for casual users coming in the first time. I have achieved an experience that's very similar to overleaf in vscode with few extensions (syntax highlighting for latex and pdf viewer to be specific) To facilitate rendering i run a xelatex command with a watcher (watchexec in my case) to watch and render my.tex files when i save changes.
Other great apps like overleaf are texstudio, texmaker, curvenote and authorea. So it's not like you must know latex in order to publish a research paper even in technical fields So, to answer your question, the alternative unsurprisingly is microsoft word or libreoffice.
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