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I have picked up a Surface RT and while there are LaTeX editors in the Microsoft store, nothing exists in terms of compilation.

Is there a way I can save a .tex file on my Surface but send it to a remote location for compilation? By remote, I was thinking of my old desktop with Ubuntu on it.

EDIT: I've decided to stay on Windows 7 using Miktex and Skydrive. Is there a solution with these products?

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If you install Dropbox you could probably write a script that runs a compilation whenever the file is updated. – Silex Jan 15 at 23:02
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You could run a simple script on Ubuntu that would watch for a change in a LaTeX file on (for example) Dropbox and then compiles it:

#!/bin/sh
while inotifywait -e modify ~/Dropbox/compileme.tex
do
        pdflatex -interaction batchmode ~/Dropbox/compileme.tex
done

You just need to run that script in the background on your Ubuntu pc.

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I've decided to stay on Windows 7 using Miktex and Skydrive. Is there a solution with these products? – masfenix Jan 16 at 0:54

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